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Responsive nanofibers with embedded hierarchical lipid self-assemblies

Tien, Nguyen D. ; Maurya, Anjani K. ; Fortunato, Giuseppino ; Rottmar, Markus ; Zboray, Robert ; Erni, Rolf ; Dommann, Alex ; Rossi, René M. ; Neels, Antonia ; Sadeghpour, Amin

In: Langmuir, 2020, vol. 36, no. 40, p. 11787–11797

We introduce the design and study of a hybrid electrospun membrane with a dedicated nanoscale structural hierarchy for controlled functions in the biomedical domain. The hybrid system comprises submicrometer-sized internally self-assembled lipid nanoparticles (ISAsomes or mesosomes) embedded into the electrospun membrane with a nanofibrous polymer network. The internal structure of ISAsomes, ...

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Structural insights into semicrystalline states of electrospun nanofibers: a multiscale analytical approach

Maurya, Anjani K. ; Weidenbacher, Lukas ; Spano, Fabrizio ; Fortunato, Giuseppino ; Rossi, René M. ; Frenz, Martin ; Dommann, Alex ; Neels, Antonia ; Sadeghpour, Amin

In: Nanoscale, 2019, vol. 11, no. 15, p. 7176–7187

A dedicated nanofiber design for applications in the biomedical domain is based on the understanding of nanofiber structures. The structure of electrospun nanofibers strongly influences their properties and functionalities. In polymeric nanofibers X-ray scattering and diffraction methods, i.e. SAXS and WAXD, are capable of decoding their structural insights from about 100 nm down to the...

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Considering the degradation effects of amino-functional plasma polymer coatings for biomedical application

Hegemann, Dirk ; Hanselmann, Barbara ; Guimond, Sébastien ; Fortunato, Giuseppino ; Giraud, Marie-Noëlle ; Guex, Anne Géraldine

In: Surface and Coatings Technology, 2014, vol. 255, p. 90–95

Materials for biomedical applications typically involve surface engineering. Scaffolds used for tissue engineering, for example, require a surface functionalization in order to support cell growth. The deposition of functional plasma polymer coatings seems to be an attractive approach to modify substrates for biomedical applications.Possible degradation of highly functional plasma polymers and...

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Anisotropically oriented electrospun matrices with an imprinted periodic micropattern: a new scaffold for engineered muscle constructs

Guex, Anne Géraldine ; Birrer, Dominique Lisa ; Fortunato, Giuseppino ; Tevaearai, Hendrik Tinorua ; Giraud, Marie-Noëlle

In: Biomedical Materials, 2013, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 021001

Engineered muscle constructs provide a promising perspective on the regeneration or substitution of irreversibly damaged skeletal muscle. However, the highly ordered structure of native muscle tissue necessitates special consideration during scaffold development. Multiple approaches to the design of anisotropically structured substrates with grooved micropatterns or parallel-aligned fibres have...