Electrospinning a small diameter tubular scaffold for tissue engineering blood vessels

• Main Author: Tay, Kulapattra Chongwen.
• 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/10356/44054
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The function of scaffolds in tissue engineering is to guide the organization, growth and differentiation of cells in constructs. They should be able to mimic the human artery biologically and mechanically. In this work, the aim was to fabricate a bilayered nanofibrous scaffold (I.D<6mm) using th...