Electrospinning is a non-mechanical processing strategy that can be used to process …

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List of abbreviations

- Electrospun nitrocellulose and nylon: Design and fabrication of novel high performance platforms for protein blotting applications

List of abbreviations

BSA: Bovine Serum Albumin

Fn: Fibronectin

HFIP: 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexaxafluoro-2-propanol

Hr: hour

nm: nanometer

PBS: Phosphate Buffered Saline

SEM: scanning electron microscopy

μm: micron

Competing interests

The authors, Manis, Bowlin, Bowman and Simpson have U.S. and International Patents Issued and Pending concerning aspects of the electrospinning process and the fabrication of blotting platforms.

Authors' contributions

The 4 authors of this manuscript each contributed equally to the work described in this manuscript, each has read and approved the final publication. AEM, GLB and DGS conducted electrospinning experiments, JRB conducted Western and Slot blotting experiments. Image analysis and viscosity measurements by DGS and AEM.

Acknowledgements

All image analysis was conducted at the core facilities of the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy Microscopy Facility at Virginia Commonwealth University, supported, in part, with funding from a NIH-NCRR shared instrumentation grant (1S10RR022495) and a NIH-NINDS Center core grant (5P30NS047463).