Comparer des méthodes

	Électrofilage	Gonflement et dégradation
Domaine	Biomatériaux	Biomatériaux
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1934	1960
Auteur d'origine	Anton Formhals	Wichterle and Lim
Type	Fiber fabrication process	Kinetic assay
Source fondatrice	Formhals, A. (1934). Process and apparatus for preparing artificial threads. U.S. Patent 1,975,504.	Wichterle, O., & Lim, D. (1960). Hydrophilic gels for biological use. Nature, 185(4706), 117-118.
Alias	electrospun fiber production, electrostatic fiber spinning	hydrogel swelling, polymer degradation, mass loss assay
Apparentées	3	4
Résumé	Electrospinning is an electrostatic fiber fabrication process that uses a high electric field to draw polymer solutions or melts into nanoscale fibers. Developed by Anton Formhals in the 1930s and refined by researchers including Darrell Reneker in the 1990s, the technique has become foundational to biomaterials engineering, enabling the creation of porous scaffolds for tissue engineering and drug delivery systems.	The swelling and degradation assay measures how biomaterial scaffolds absorb water (swelling) and lose mass over time due to degradation. Developed by Wichterle and Lim in 1960 for hydrogels, the assay is fundamental for characterizing hydrogels, synthetic polymers, and composite scaffolds intended for tissue engineering. The assay provides quantitative data on swelling kinetics (equilibrium water content, swelling ratio), degradation kinetics (mass loss rate, half-life), and mechanisms of degradation (chain scission, enzymatic breakdown).