A review of developments in electrospinning technology: new opportunities for the design of artificial tissue structures.

Purpose: As a technology for the production of micro- and nanostructured scaffold materials, electrospinning has gained widespread acceptance in the medical research community over the last decade. The process generates a non-woven fiber mat consisting of one continuous filament with diameters ranging from the micron to the nanometer range. Because of its similarity to the filamentous microenvironment in native tissues, it is most often used as scaffold material in tissue engineering applications.