I-Corps: Portable/hand-held fine fiber making device

研究人员已经开发出一种手持式设备，可以在没有电力的情况下生产非织造纤维（NF）垫。该设备可以进行熔融和溶液纺丝，并且由于它不需要电场，因此它拓宽了可以纺成NF的材料的种类。该技术是最近引入的一种方法，通过离心力驱动材料通过一组设计的孔在一个过滤器。这可能为从不同的生物材料溶液生产用于伤口敷料和出血控制的生物活性NF垫提供机会。该设备能够从有机和无机溶液中生产NF，并熔化用于过滤，纺织，航空航天和航空工业等应用以及其他应用。该项目将进一步验证该技术的概念，开发一种便携式设备，该设备可以在几秒钟内产生高产量，并且在士兵/平民安全至关重要的情况下不需要介电溶液或任何施加的静电场，并有可能为止血材料和系统打开新的大门。该器械生产的材料可用于伤口愈合和治疗活动性深部伤口以及活动性大面积和浅表伤口，为士兵和平民创伤/手术程序提供潜在益处。

Researchers have developed a hand-held device that produces non-woven nanofiber (NF) mats in the absence of electrical forces. This device can do melt and solution spinning and since it does not require electric fields, it broadens the variety of materials that can be spun into NFs. The technology was recently introduced as a method that through centrifugal forces drives the material through a set of designed orifices within a spinneret. It may provide an opportunity to produce bioactive NF mats from different biomaterial solutions for wound dressings and hemorrhage control. The device has the ability to produce NFs from organic and inorganic solutions and melt for applications such as filtration, textiles, aerospace and aeronautics industries and additional applications as well. This project will look into further establishing a proof of concept for the technology.The development of a portable device which can produce a high yield in seconds and does not need dielectric solutions or any applied electrostatic field in situations where soldier/civilian safety is crucial and has the potential to open new doors for hemostatic materials and systems. Materials produced by this device can be used for the healing of wounds and for the treatment of active deep wounds as well as active large surface and shallow wounds provides potential benefits to soldier and civilian trauma/surgery procedures.