Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications

M Rinaudo - Progress in polymer science, 2006 - Elsevier
Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

Electrospinning: a fascinating method for the preparation of ultrathin fibers

A Greiner, JH Wendorff - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospinning is a highly versatile method to process solutions or melts, mainly of
polymers, into continuous fibers with diameters ranging from a few micrometers to a few …

In vitro and in vivo study of PCL/COLL wound dressing loaded with insulin-chitosan nanoparticles on cutaneous wound healing in rats model

A Ehterami, M Salehi, S Farzamfar, A Vaez… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the current study, insulin delivering chitosan nanoparticles were coated onto the
electrospun poly (ε-caprolactone)(PCL)/Collagen (COLL) to produce a potential wound care …

[BOK][B] One-dimensional nanostructures: electrospinning technique and unique nanofibers

Z Li, C Wang - 2013 - Springer
One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures (wires, rods, tubes, fibers, and belts) are of current
interest for their applications in mesoscopic physics and nanoscale devices. In contrast to …

Emerging chitin and chitosan nanofibrous materials for biomedical applications

F Ding, H Deng, Y Du, X Shi, Q Wang - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past several decades, we have witnessed significant progress in chitosan and
chitin based nanostructured materials. The nanofibers from chitin and chitosan with …

A review: electrospinning of biopolymer nanofibers and their applications

JD Schiffman, CL Schauer - Polymer reviews, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Electrospinning is a fabrication technique, which can be used to create nanofibrous non‐
wovens from a variety of starting materials. The structure, chemical and mechanical stability …

Biomimetic scaffolds for tissue engineering

TG Kim, H Shin, DW Lim - Advanced Functional Materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Biomimetic scaffolds mimic important features of the extracellular matrix (ECM) architecture
and can be finely controlled at the nano‐or microscale for tissue engineering. Rational …

Electrospun nanofiber scaffolds: engineering soft tissues

SG Kumbar, R James, SP Nukavarapu… - Biomedical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrospinning has emerged to be a simple, elegant and scalable technique to fabricate
polymeric nanofibers. Pure polymers as well as blends and composites of both natural and …

Encapsulation of curcumin loaded chitosan nanoparticle within poly (ε-caprolactone) and gelatin fiber mat for wound healing and layered dermal reconstitution

M Zahiri, M Khanmohammadi, A Goodarzi… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hybrid electrospun fiber containing bioactive molecules, which offer the ability to deliver the
cells into the wound bed, will help to achieve a high therapeutic effect. In this study, an …

Nanofibrous materials and their applications

C Burger, BS Hsiao, B Chu - Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Nanostructured fibrous materials have been made more readily available in large
part owing to recent advances in electrospinning and related technologies, including the use …