title: Integrating Substrateless Electrospinning with Textile Technology for Creating Biodegradable Three-Dimensional Structures.
abstract: The present study describes a unique way of integrating substrateless electrospinning process with textile technology. We developed a new collector design that provided a pressure-driven, localized cotton-wool structure in free space from which continuous high strength yarns were drawn. An advantage of this integration was that the textile could be drug/dye loaded and be developed into a core-sheath architecture with greater functionality. This method could produce potential nanotextiles for various biomedical applications.
authors.affiliation: Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi 682 041, India.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.affiliation: Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi 682 041, India.
authors.forename: Shantikumar V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.affiliation: Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi 682 041, India.
authors.forename: Deepthy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Menon
mesh_terms: D055119:Elastic Modulus; D055664:Electrochemical Techniques / Q000379:methods; D057139:Nanofibers / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods; D013783:Textile Industry / Q000379:methods*; D013784:Textiles / Q000032:analysis*
keywords: Electrospinning; collector; core−sheath; nanofibers; textiles; yarns