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Electrospun fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering: Viewpoints on architecture and fabrication
- Abstract:
- Electrospinning has been used for the fabrication of extracellular matrix (ECM)-mimicking fibrous scaffolds for several decades. Electrospun fibrous scaffolds provide nanoscale/microscale fibrous structures with interconnecting pores, resembling natural ECM in tissues, and showing a high potential to facilitate the formation of artificial functional tissues. In this review, we summarize the fundamental principles of electrospinning processes for generating complex fibrous scaffold geometries that are similar in structural complexity to the ECM of living tissues. Moreover, several approaches for the formation of three-dimensional fibrous scaffolds arranged in hierarchical structures for tissue engineering are also presented.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.3390/ijms19030745
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- International Journal of Molecular Sciences More from this journal
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 745
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-03
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1422-0067
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1422-0067
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29509688
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English
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- © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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