Environmental effects in fibre fabrication using electrospinning-based rapid prototyping

The ability to construct rapidly artefacts with controllable architectures has made rapid prototyping (RP) an attractive alternative for scaffold fabrication in tissue engineering. Recently, an electrospinning-based RP, another in-house development RP technique, has been introduced. The technique applies near-field electrospinning for fine fibre creation and faces a problem on fibre solidification influenced by several parameters. Presented in this paper is the investigation on the effect of ambient parameters on the fibre fabrication process. Experiments were conducted to investigate the fabrication in open and closed environments as well as the influence of humidity. According to the statistical analyses of the results, the environment had slight effects on the fibre creation, and the fabrication in the closed environment is recommended.