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1.3 History of electrospinning
Electrospinning became widely popular to the research community in the 1990s, largely thanks to the work done in the research group of D.H. Reneker.15 However, the first record on what is now known in electrospinning as the Taylor cone16 reaches back to the seventeenth century when W.
Gilbert observed the deformation of a water drop due to high voltage.17 In 1887, C.V. Boys tried “the old but little known-experiment of electrical spinning” to melt-electrospin a thin glass fiber.18 Unfortunately unsuccessful, he resorted to fast melt-drawing of a fiber by shooting a crossbow fused to a heated
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Figure 1.2 Comparison of SEM pictures on di erent ECM - and electrospun structures; (a) type I-collagen network,11 (b) decellularized tendon,12 (c) fibrin clots,13 (d) collagen fibrils of a decellularized aortic valve,14 (e) electrospun poly(e-caprolactone) fibers and (f) aligned electrospun poly(vinylidenefluoride) fibers; (a) adapted with permission from the Journal of Cell Science, (b, c & d) adapted from PLoS ONE under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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