title: A simple and high production rate manufacturing method for submicron polymer fibres.
abstract: The manufacturing technique for cotton-candy floss, heat-aided rotary jet-spinning, was used to produce submicron-scale fibrous meshes by using bioabsorbable thermoplastic polymers. The method was feasible for 100 wt% polymer concentrations functioning completely without solvents. It was possible to produce submicron diameter fibres using a simple device, which indicates that this manufacturing method is a very promising technique for obtaining high-throughput rates for submicron, and possibly nano-scale, fibrous meshes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. mikko.huttunen@tut.fi
authors.forename: Mikko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huttunen
authors.forename: Minna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kellomäki
mesh_terms: D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010316:Particle Size; D011091:Polyesters / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D014783:Viscosity
chemical_list: D011091:Polyesters; D011108:Polymers; C033616:poly(lactide)