Electrospinning team to build coverings from vascular stents with shape memory polyurethanes (SMPU)

Abstract

The electrospinning is a manufacturing technique that allows non-woven to create a variety of polymeric matrices. The chemical structure, mechanics, stability, functionality and other properties can be modified to match applications in coatings for vascular stents used for correction of aneurysms. The SMPU are high-performance elastomers, due to its combination of elasticity, thermal and mechanical properties, so that may be useful for coating vascular stents. In this paper we developed a team of electropinning for coating stents, the team allowed to control the process variables on various polymers.