Electrospinning can be adapted to virtually any application that requires a nanofibrous material or coating.  Materials are usually made by electrospinning a layer of polymer onto a rotating mandrel, then either sliding the material off the mandrel to produce a tube, or by cutting the material away and peeling it off the mandrel to create a flat sheet.  Mandrels with very small or large diameters can be electrospun onto, and Bio-Spun™ materials and coatings can be made as thin as a few microns thick to several millimeters.  This technology in its current state 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 that 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 as well as can possess elasticity, have excellent strength, can be made of degradable or non-degradable polymers, have state-of-the-art drug delivery capabilities, and can undergo surface modifications to improve wicking/hydrophilicity or to incorporate/bind various bioactives.