Chemical Engineering Progress, April 1st, 2003
Electrospinning has been used to process a variety of synthetic polymers for many applications, such as textile. For the first time, the technology has been adapted to produce fibers of fibrinogen (a soluble protein that is present in the blood plasma and has been shown to play a key role in wound healing) with diameters that approach the native profile of a cell (10 nm), making it possible to create tissue-engineering scaffolds, wound dressings and hemostatic products that truly mimic the body's natural tissues. "Until now, there was no technique available for spinning fibrinogen," says Gary ...
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