ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023
The Mechanical Properties of Blended Fibrinogen:Polycaprolactone (PCL) Nanofibers.
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Abstract
Electrospinning is a process to produce versatile nanoscale fibers. In this process, synthetic and natural polymers can be combined to produce novel, blended materials with a range of physical, chemical, and biological properties. We electrospun biocompatible, blended fibrinogen:polycaprolactone (PCL) nanofibers with diameters ranging from 40 nm to 600 nm, at 25:75 and 75:25 blend ratios and determined their mechanical properties using a combined atomic force/optical microscopy technique. Fiber extensibility (breaking strain), elastic limit, and stress relaxation times depended on blend ratios but not fiber diameter. As the fibrinogen:PCL ratio increased from 25:75 to 75:25, extensibility decreased from 120% to 63% and elastic limit decreased from a range between 18% and 40% to a range between 12% and 27%. Stiffness-related properties, including the Young's modulus, rupture stress, and the total and relaxed, elastic moduli (Kelvin model), strongly depended on fiber diameter. For diameters less than 150 nm, these stiffness-related quantities varied approximately as
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