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Paper   IPM / CMNL / 14907
Condensed Matter National Laboratory
  Title:   Polycaprolactone-templated reduced-graphene oxide liquid crystal nanofibers towards biomedical applications
  Author(s): 
1.  Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad
2.  Mohamad Hasan Mohamadzadeh Moghadam
3.  Mohammad Hossein Ghanian
4.  Mohammad Kazemi Ashtiani
5.  Hossein Alimadadi
6.  Hossein Baharvand
7.  Ivan Martin
8.  Arnaud Scherberich
  Status:   Published
  Journal: RSC Adv.
  Vol.:  7
  Year:  2017
  Pages:   39628-39634
  Publisher(s):   Royal Society of Chemistry
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Here, we report a facile method to generate electrically conductive nanofibers by coating and subsequently chemically reducing graphene oxide (GO) liquid crystals on a polycaprolactone (PCL) mat. Ultra large GO sheets obtained are in favor of charge carrier mobility and oriented morphology of the GO coating. We showed that coating the reduced GO (rGO) not only retains the three-dimensional topography, fiber orientation and size of the template PCL, but also makes it electroconductive. Our preliminary in vitro assessments using mesenchymal stem cells revealed no induced cytotoxicity yet increased cellular metabolism on PCL-templated rGO fibers.

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