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  • Effects of ambient relative humidity and solvent properties on the electrospinning of pure hyaluronic acid nanofibers.

Effects of ambient relative humidity and solvent properties on the electrospinning of pure hyaluronic acid nanofibers.

Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology (2013-08-02)
Shenglian Yao, Xiumei Wang, Xi Liu, Ronghan Wang, Changsheng Deng, Fuzhai Cuil
ABSTRACT

Nanofibers exist ubiquitously in natural extracellular matrix (ECM) of all kinds of human tissues forming hydrated interwoven network. Electrospinning nanotechnology has been proven to be a powerful technique to fabricate controllable nanofibers mimicking the natural ECM structures. Hyaluronic acid (HA), as a critical component of natural ECM, has been widely used in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In this study, pure HA nanofibers with average diameter of 33 +/- 5 nm, 59 +/- 12 nm, 79 +/- 12 nm and 113 +/- 19 nm were successfully prepared using different electrospinning parameters. The effect of the ambient relative humidity on HA electrospinnability was investigated for the first time in detail, which was proven to be one of the most important factors to control the morphology of HA nanofibers beside the solution properties. A critical value of humidity for a defined HA solution was observed, only below which HA nanofibers with similar diameters and morphologies could be successfully obtained. When the ambient relative humidity was higher than the critical value, the HA nanofibers started dissolving at the cross points and even fused together forming a spreading layer. Moreover, only a small amount of N, N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) was found to be required to promote the electrospinnability of HA solution by mixing with water as solvents. With the increase in the DMF content, the surface tension of the solution decreased significantly, which was thought to be benefit for the stable Taylor cone and fluid jet formation in electrospinning. At the same time, it should be noted that the conductivity of the solution also decreased with the increase of DMF content in the solution, which was believed to be responsible for the increasing diameters of HA nanofibers corresponding to higher DMF content. Controllable HA nanofibers with diameter below 100 nm have great promising for developing novel nanobiomaterials applied in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

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