Electrospinning can be adapted to virtually any application that requires a nanofibrous material or coating.  Materials are usually made by first electrospinning a layer of polymer onto a rotating mandrel. Next, the material can be slid off of the mandrel to produce a tube, cut and peeled off of the mandrel to create a flat sheet, or left on a device if the material is coated onto it.  Mandrels with very small or large diameters can be electrospun onto, and the Bio-Spun® materials and coatings can be made as thin as a few microns to as thick as several millimeters. The current state of this technology is designed for rapid prototyping and reproducibility but can be affordably scaled to mass production.

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During or immediately after electrospinning, these materials can be manipulated in various ways to alter its final form. For example, our Bio-Spun® materials can be stretched and twisted to make sutures, our tubes can be crimped to make kink-resistant artificial blood vessels, or multiple layers can be fused to encapsulate internal structures. The images below illustrate a few examples of our devices, demonstrating the flexibility of our technology to form various shapes. All of these products have the microstructural benefits of a Bio-Spun® material in terms of healing and can possess elasticity, have excellent strength, can be made of biodegradable or nondegradable polymers, have state-of-the-art drug delivery capabilities, and can undergo surface modifications to either improve wicking/hydrophilicity or incorporate/bind various bioactives.