Correlating keratin solution behaviour to the physical properties of resulting electrospun matrices

• Main Author: Sendy Agung Purnomo
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55787
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Keratin emerges as an attractive protein of human origin to be used as a template for tissue regeneration because it can be easily extracted from the unlimited supply of human hair, making it abundant and readily available. In addition, interest in electrospinning has recently escalated as it is an...