Rheological, Surface Tension and Conductivity Insights on the Electrospinnability of Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-hyaluronic Acid Solutions and Their Correlations with the Nanofiber Morphological Characteristics
Liu, Ziqian, Ramakrishna, Seeram, Ahmed, Ifty, Rudd, Chris, and Liu, Xiaoling (2022) Rheological, Surface Tension and Conductivity Insights on the Electrospinnability of Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-hyaluronic Acid Solutions and Their Correlations with the Nanofiber Morphological Characteristics. Polymers, 14 (20). 4411.
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Abstract
In this study, solutions were prepared with fixed concentrations of hyaluronic acid (HA) but varied concentrations of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) to emphasize the effects of PLGA concentration and HA addition on solution properties and to further evaluate their electrospinning performance. The dependence of specific viscosity on PLGA concentration was studied to determine the concentration regimes and evaluate the critical concentration (Ce) for successful fiber generation. The Ce of PLGA solutions is 12.07% compared to 10.09% for PLGA-HA solutions. Blending with HA results in a lower concentration dependence and better consistency to the theoretical scaling mechanisms due to the additional topological constrains, which thus result in more chain entanglements. Solutions in semi-dilute entangled regimes show the crossover of complex moduli, verifying the stable and reliable entanglement network. Higher concentrations and HA addition both led to lower crossover frequencies and, thus, a longer relaxation time. The effects of a higher PLGA concentration and HA addition on the surface tension were not evident. However, the HA addition significantly improved the solution conductivity up to three times in the pure PLGA solutions due to its polyelectrolyte nature. Defect-free and uniform nanofibers were generated from 35% to 40% of the PLGA-HA solutions, yet fibers with bead-on-string structures were produced from all studied pure PLGA solutions. Such solution characteristics and parametric correlations can provide predictive insights on tailoring the morphological characteristics of nanofibers for specific applications.
| Item ID: | 78221 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2073-4360 |
| Keywords: | chain entanglements, electrospinning, solution conductivity, solution rheology, surface tension |
| Copyright Information: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 02 May 2023 02:12 |
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