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Electrospun Biomaterials

A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 15678

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Prof. Dr. Andrea Ehrmann

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Faculty of Engineering and Mathematics, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Interaktion 1, 33619 Bielefeld, Germany
Interests: biopolymers; electrospinning; magnetism; spintronics; optics; dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs); smart textiles
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Dear Colleagues,

Biopolymers often have highly interesting intrinsic properties, such as support of wound healing and collagen crosslinking by aloe vera, drying wet wounds by alginate, drug delivery by carboxymethylcellulose for wound dressing or pH-responsive swelling behavior, hyaluronic acid for deep burns, etc. To provide an optimized contact with the environment, such biopolymers should be formed as nanofibers, e.g., by electrospinning.

This, however, is challenging. Most biopolymers need a spinning agent, e.g., poly(ethylene glycol), to be electrospinnable. Next, many biopolymers are water-soluble and thus need to be crosslinked after electrospinning.

This Special Issue searches for the latest developments in electrospinning biopolymers, with or without a spinning agent, with or without crosslinking, concentrating on non-toxic and low-toxic solvents, spinning, and crosslinking agents. It covers the full range from basic research to novel applications of electrospun biomaterials.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Ehrmann
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Keywords

  • electrospinning
  • biomaterials
  • biopolymers
  • nanofibers
  • crosslinking
  • physical and chemical investigation
  • inherent properties

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Non-Toxic Crosslinking of Electrospun Gelatin Nanofibers for Tissue Engineering and Biomedicine—A Review
by Andrea Ehrmann
Polymers 2021, 13(12), 1973; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/polym13121973 - 15 Jun 2021
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Electrospinning can be used to prepare nanofiber mats from diverse polymers, polymer blends, or polymers doped with other materials. Amongst this broad range of usable materials, biopolymers play an important role in biotechnological, biomedical, and other applications. However, several of them are water-soluble, [...] Read more.
Electrospinning can be used to prepare nanofiber mats from diverse polymers, polymer blends, or polymers doped with other materials. Amongst this broad range of usable materials, biopolymers play an important role in biotechnological, biomedical, and other applications. However, several of them are water-soluble, necessitating a crosslinking step after electrospinning. While crosslinking with glutaraldehyde or other toxic chemicals is regularly reported in the literature, here, we concentrate on methods applying non-toxic or low-toxic chemicals, and enzymatic as well as physical methods. Making gelatin nanofibers non-water soluble by electrospinning them from a blend with non-water soluble polymers is another method described here. These possibilities are described together with the resulting physical properties, such as swelling behavior, mechanical strength, nanofiber morphology, or cell growth and proliferation on the crosslinked nanofiber mats. For most of these non-toxic crosslinking methods, the degree of crosslinking was found to be lower than for crosslinking with glutaraldehyde and other common toxic chemicals. Full article
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Electrospun Functional Nanofiber Membrane for Antibiotic Removal in Water: Review
by Kun Zhao, Shi-Xiong Kang, Yao-Yao Yang and Deng-Guang Yu
Polymers 2021, 13(2), 226; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/polym13020226 - 11 Jan 2021
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As a new kind of water pollutant, antibiotics have encouraged researchers to develop new treatment technologies. Electrospun fiber membrane shows excellent benefits in antibiotic removal in water due to its advantages of large specific surface area, high porosity, good connectivity, easy surface modification [...] Read more.
As a new kind of water pollutant, antibiotics have encouraged researchers to develop new treatment technologies. Electrospun fiber membrane shows excellent benefits in antibiotic removal in water due to its advantages of large specific surface area, high porosity, good connectivity, easy surface modification and new functions. This review introduces the four aspects of electrospinning technology, namely, initial development history, working principle, influencing factors and process types. The preparation technologies of electrospun functional fiber membranes are then summarized. Finally, recent studies about antibiotic removal by electrospun functional fiber membrane are reviewed from three aspects, namely, adsorption, photocatalysis and biodegradation. Future research demand is also recommended. Full article
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