Ordered, adherent layers of nanofibers enabled by supramolecular interactions

J Mater Chem B. 2014;2(46):8110-8115. doi: 10.1039/C4TB00724G.

Abstract

Aligned nanofibrous substrates can be created by electrospinning, but methods for creating multilamellar structures of aligned fibers are limited. Here, apposed nanofibrous scaffolds with pendant β-cyclodextrin (CD) were adhered together by adamantane (Ad) modified hyaluronic acid, exploiting the guest-host interactions of CD and Ad for macroscopic assembly. Stable user-defined multi-layered scaffolds were formed for cell culture or tissue engineering.