Electrospinning a small diameter tubular scaffold for tissue engineering blood vessels

• Main Author: Law, Charlotte Wenyi.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42848
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Electrospinning has been well-researched and it has been utilized for some years to create biodegradable scaffolds for tissue engineering. However, there has always been difficulty in removing a tubular scaffold from its cylindrical collector without affecting its structural and mechanical integrity...