Electrospun Implantable Conducting Nanomaterials

The creation of innovative nanomaterials and the manufacture of nano-sized features can help biosensors become more sensitive by increasing the capture of target biomolecules. Electrospinning is one of the most widely used techniques among the nanotechnology methods and it is a promising approach for tissue regeneration applications. This chapter discusses applications of electrospinning in the biomedical field, in particular with tissue engineering and drug delivery. Conductive nanofibrous scaffolds have the advantages of both electrospun scaffolds and conductive scaffolds and are thus suitable for use as efficient scaffolds for tissue engineering applications in special tissues such muscle, heart and nerve. Conductive materials such as polypyrrole, polyaniline, poly 3, 4-ethyl-enedioxythiophene and carbon nanotubes have desirable properties such as good biocompatibility, conductivity, ideal cell adhesion and are therefore suitable for tissue engineering applications. Several conductive materials have been investigated based on biodegradable polymers for the development of conductive scaffolds in neural tissue engineering applications.