This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results- 1Fiber Diameter
- 1Mechanical Properties
- 1Melt Electrospinning
- 1Morphological Properties
- 1Polyurethane
- 1Recovery Rate
-
Melt Electrospinning of Shape Memory Polymer: An Initial Examination of the Morphological, Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Non-woven Melt-Electrospun Polyurethane Shape Memory Polymer Mats.
DownloadFall 2020
Shape memory polymers (SMP) are a class of smart materials which are able to memorize a temporary shape and recall their original/permanent shape with the application of a stimulus. The electrospinning process has been utilized to produce fibrous SMP membranes from polymer solutions, but this...
-
Fall 2018
Surgical sutures are used for wound closure in surgeries and injuries by bringing the edges of an open wound together. Conventional way of applying surgical sutures is to secure the wound with surgical knots and tight stitches. Compared to conventional ones, braided sutures have advantages in...