Journal
MATERIALS TODAY BIO
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2022.100243
Keywords
Electrospinning; Textile-forming technique; Nanotextile scaffolds; Nanofibrous yarns; Subcutaneous implantation
Funding
- Shandong Science Foundation forYoung Scholar [ZR2020QE090]
- Start-up Grant of Qingdao University
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This study presents an integrated electrospinning system for fabricating nanofibrous textiles with excellent properties, which is of great significance in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Bio-textiles have aroused attractive attentions in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and developing robust, bio-absorbable, and extracellular matrix (ECM) fibril-mimicking nanofibrous textiles is urgently required for the renewal of existing microfibrous textile-based scaffolds and grafts. In this study, an integrated electrospinning system consisting of one nanoyarn-forming unit and one hot stretching unit is reported to fabricate silk fibroin (SF)/poly (L-lactic-acid) (PLLA) nanofibrous yarns (nanoyarns). The hot stretching process is demonstrated to significantly improve the fiber alignment, crystallinity, and mechanical properties of SF/PLLA nanoyarns, compared to the unstretched controls. For instance, the fiber alignment degree of hot stretched 50/50 SF/ PLLA nanoyarn has increased by 25%, and the failure strength has increased by 246.5%, compared with the corresponding un-stretched control. Increasing the SF/PLLA mass ratio is found to significantly decrease the crystallinity and mechanical properties, but notably increase the degradation rate and surface hydrophilicity of SF/PLLA nanoyarns. Different SF/PLLA nanoyarns are further meticulously interwoven with warp and weft directions to obtain several nanofibrous woven textiles. The results from in vitro cell characterization and in vivo subcutaneous implantation show that increasing the SF/PLLA mass ratio significantly improves the biological properties and effectively reduces the inflammatory response of nanoyarn-constructed textiles. Overall, this study demonstrates that our SF/PLLA nanoyarns with controllable physical, mechanical and biological performances are fantastic candidates for the designing and development of advanced nanoarchitectured textile tissue scaffolds.
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