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Mohammad Sabzi

Mohammad Sabzi

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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
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E-mail: ms_chm [at] yahoo.com
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Research

Title
Designing Triple-shape Memory Polymers from a Miscible Polymer Pair Through Dual-electrospinning Technique
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JournalPaper
Keywords
biopolymer; electrospinning; graphene; poly(lactic acid); poly(vinyl acetate); triple-shape memory polymer
Year
2019
Journal Journal of Applied Polymer Science
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Researchers Mohammad Sabzi ، Marzieh Ranjbar Mohammadi Bonab ، Qiwei Zhang ، Saeed Kargozar ، Jinsong Leng ، tahereh Akhtari ، Robabeh Abbasi

Abstract

Recently, multiple-shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted a great deal of attention in biomedical applications. Therefore, a series of triple-SMPs were developed by simply blending of two immiscible SMPs exhibiting two distinct transition temperatures, which is required for triple-shape memory (SM) effect. However, fabrication of triple-SMPs from completely miscible polymer pairs using the conventional blending approach is a challenging problem. Because this type of blends consists of one homogeneous phase and thereby exhibit only one transition temperature and dual-SM behavior. To overcome this problem, herein, a novel and versatile strategy is introduced for preparation of phase separated blends from a completely miscible polymer pair, exhibiting triple-SM behavior. Dual-electrospinning technique was utilized to simultaneously electrospin poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc), as a model miscible polymer pair, to obtain an interwoven polymer composite with two well-separated thermal transitions, as revealed by dynamic mechanical analyze. Consequently, the SM experiments revealed that the electrospun PLA/PVAc composites have triple-SM behavior. Furthermore, incorporation of graphene nanoplatelets into the composite fibers significantly improved the triple-SM properties of samples. Additionally, excellent adherence and spreading of the osteoblasts on the fibrous scaffolds containing graphene were observed