Steering surface topographies of electrospun fibers: understanding the mechanisms and application to O2 sensing

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Dr. R. Dmitriev, Dr. J. Jenkins and Prof. D. Papkovsky have co-authored the new study on design of polymer nanofiber matrices, produced by electrospinning method, for advanced applications such as tissue engineering, drug delivery and optical biosensing. The collaborative multi-disciplinary work between Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland) and Laboratory of Biophysics and Bioanalysis/ Metabolic Imaging Group (UCC) demonstrated the rational design of polymer-based nanofiber materials with controlled surface topography and its application for imaging of pericellular O2 in 3D cancer cell model.
The article has been published in Scientific Reports journal. Full text is available here.

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