Melt electrospinning.
Summary of "Melt electrospinning."
Melt electrospinning is relatively under-investigated compared to solution electrospinning but provides opportunities in numerous areas, in which solvent accumulation or toxicity are a concern. These applications are diverse, and provide a broad set of challenges to researchers involved in electrospinning. In this context, melt electrospinning provides an alternative approach that bypasses some challenges to solution electronspinning, while bringing new issues to the forefront, such as the thermal stability of polymers. This Focus Review describes the literature on melt electrospinning, as well as highlighting areas where both melt and solution are combined, and potentially merge together in the future.
Affiliation
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove 4059 (Australia), Fax: (+61) 07-3138-6030.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Chemistry, an Asian journal
ISSN: 1861-471X
Pages: 44-56
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21080400
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asia.201000436
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Ionic Liquids
Salts that melt below 100 C. Their low VOLATILIZATION can be an advantage over volatile organic solvents.
Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
Electrophoresis in which various denaturant gradients are used to induce nucleic acids to melt at various stages resulting in separation of molecules based on small sequence differences including SNPs. The denaturants used include heat, formamide, and urea.
Suppositories
Medicated dosage forms that are designed to be inserted into the rectal, vaginal, or urethral orifice of the body for absorption. Generally, the active ingredients are packaged in dosage forms containing fatty bases such as cocoa butter, hydrogenated oil, or glycerogelatin that are solid at room temperature but melt or dissolve at body temperature.
PubMed Articles
Direct Writing By Way of Melt Electrospinning.
Melt electrospun fibers of poly(ϵ-caprolactone) are accurately deposited using an automated stage as the collector. Matching the translation speed of the collector to the speed of the melt electrospi...
Solution-, melt-, and co-axial electrospinning are well-known methods for producing nano- and microfibers. The electrospinning of colloids (or colloid-electrospinning) is a new field that offers the p...
Melt electrospinning in a direct writing mode is a recent additive manufacturing approach to fabricate porous scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. In this study, we describe porous and cell-...
Microtomography of partially molten rocks: three-dimensional melt distribution in mantle peridotite.
The permeability of the upper mantle controls melt segregation beneath spreading centers. Reconciling contradictory geochemical and geophysical observations at ocean ridges requires a better understan...
Carbon Nanofibers Prepared via Electrospinning.
Carbon nanofibers prepared via electrospinning and following carbonization are summarized by focusing on the structure and properties in relation to their applications, after a brief review of electro...
Clinical Trials
Influence of Food-intake on Desmopressin Oral Tablets and MELT-formulation
Alarm-treatment as well as Desmopressin, a synthetic analogue of human vasopressin, are considered the only evidence-based medicine (EBM) IA treatments in monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresi...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of several doses of the melt formulation of desmopressin in a broad population of adult patients with nocturia.
Study title: Functional dyspepsia -- effect of acid reducing treatment and individualized information. Summary: 15-20% of all people experience dyspepsia each year. Dyspepsia means pain o...
Study With Two Different Doses of Desmopressin Melt Tablet With Nocturnal Enuresis
This is multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, double-blind, dose-escalating clinical trial designed to assess the efficacy and safety of desmopressin lyophilisate f...
Stool Testing for Pancreatic Cancer
The purpose of this study is to determine if pancreatic cancer/pre-cancer can be detected in early stages through the molecular analysis of stool samples. Investigators hypothesize that an...
