Thermally drawn polycaprolactone fibres with customised cross sections

Syamak Farajikhah; Ivan D. Rukhlenko; Alessio Stefani; Maryanne Large; Wojciech Chrzanowski; Simon Fleming

doi:10.1117/12.2541106

30 December 2019 Thermally drawn polycaprolactone fibres with customised cross sections

Syamak Farajikhah, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Alessio Stefani, Maryanne Large, Wojciech Chrzanowski, Simon Fleming

Proceedings Volume 11200, AOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019; 1120039 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541106
Event: ANZCOP, 2019, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

There is growing demand for biodegradable polymer fibres in tissue engineering and nerve regeneration. We demonstrate a scalable and inexpensive fabrication technique to produce polycaproactone (PCL) fibres using fibredrawing technique. Here we report on the first successful drawing of hollow-core and solid-core PCL fibres of different cross sections. The demonstrated capacity to tailor the surface morphology of PCL fibres, together with their biodegradability and tissue compatibility, makes them a unique material base for tissue engineering and nerve regeneration applications.

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Syamak Farajikhah, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Alessio Stefani, Maryanne Large, Wojciech Chrzanowski, and Simon Fleming "Thermally drawn polycaprolactone fibres with customised cross sections", Proc. SPIE 11200, AOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019, 1120039 (30 December 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541106

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