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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Fabrication and Characterization of Magnesium Ferrite-Based PCL/Aloe Vera Nanofibers.

Zanshe Thompson, Shekh Rahman, Sergey Yarmolenko, Jagannathan Sankar, Dhananjay Kumar, Narayan Bhattarai

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zanshe ThompsonDepartment of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. zsthomps@aggies.ncat.edu.
Shekh RahmanDepartment of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. srahman@aggies.ncat.edu.
Sergey YarmolenkoNSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. sergey@ncat.edu.
Jagannathan SankarNSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. sankar@ncat.edu.
Dhananjay KumarNSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. dkumar@ncat.edu.
Narayan BhattaraiDepartment of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. nbhattar@ncat.edu.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Composite nanofibers of biopolymers and inorganic materials have been widely explored as tissue engineering scaffolds because of their superior structural, mechanical and biological properties. In this study, magnesium ferrite (Mg-ferrite) based composite nanofibers were synthesized using an electrospinning technique. Mg-ferrite nanoparticles were first synthesized using the reverse micelle method, and then blended in a mixture of polycaprolactone (PCL), a synthetic polymer, and Aloe vera, a natural polymer, to create magnetic nanofibers by electrospinning. The morphology, structural and magnetic properties, and cellular compatibility of the magnetic nanofibers were analyzed. Mg-ferrite/PCL/Aloe vera nanofibers showed good uniformity in fiber morphology, retained their structural integrity, and displayed magnetic strength. Experimental results, using cell viability assay and scanning electron microscopy imaging showed that magnetic nanofibers supported 3T3 cell viability. We believe that the new composite nanofibrous membranes developed in this study have the ability to mimic the physical structure and function of tissue extracellular matrix, as well as provide the magnetic and soluble metal ion attributes in the scaffolds with enhanced cell attachment, and thus improve tissue regeneration.

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aloe veraelectrospinningmagnesium ferritemagnetic nanofibersPCLscaffolds

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PMID28800071
PMCPMC5578303
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