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Technology background

CytoNest, Inc., is a startup company located at the University of Georgia. The co-founders initially developed our proprietary fiber fabrication technology at the Nanostructured Materials Lab. The technology was licensed and further developed and commercialized by the co-founders at CytoNest, Inc with the support from the University of Georgia.

CytoNest 3D fiber scaffolds in literature

Publications

Fabrication of core-sheath nanoyarn via touchspinning and its application in wearable piezoelectric nanogenerator.

H Gao, D. Asheghali, NS Yadavalli, MT Pham, TD Nguyen, S Minko, S Sharma 

The Journal of The Textile Institute 2020, 111 (6), 906-915. DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2019.1678558.

Highly flexible and conductive stainless-steel thread based piezoelectric coaxial yarn nanogenerators via solution coating and touch-spun nanofibers coating methods. 

MM Uddin, B. Blevins, NS Yadavalli, MT Pham, TD Nguyen, S Minko, S. Sharma 

Smart Materials and Structures 2022, 31 (3), 035028. DOI: 10.1088/1361-665X/ac5015.

Infrared polarimetry: Anisotropy of polymer nanofibers

K Hinrichs, B. Blevins, A. Furchner, NS Yadavalli, S. Minko

Micro and Nano Engineering 2022, 14, 100116. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mne.2022.100116

Gravity Drawing of Micro‐and Nanofibers for Additive Manufacturing of Well‐Organized 3D‐Nanostructured Scaffolds

NS Yadavalli, D Asheghali, A Tokarev, W Zhang, J Xie, S Minko

Small 16 (11), 1907422

Enhanced neuronal differentiation of neural stem cells with mechanically enhanced touch-spun nanofibrous scaffolds

D Asheghali, SJ Lee, A Furchner, A Gruzd, S Larson, A Tokarev, S Stake, ...

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 24, 102152

Touch-spun nanofibers for nerve regeneration

SJ Lee, D Asheghali, B Blevins, R Timsina, T Esworthy, X Zhou, H Cui, ...

ACS applied materials & interfaces 12 (2), 2067-2075

Touch-and brush-spinning of nanofibers

A Tokarev, D Asheghali, I Griffiths, O Trotsenko, A Gruzd, X Lin, H Stone, ...

Advanced Materials 27 (41)

Reactive Magnetospinning of Nano‐and Microfibers

A Tokarev, O Trotsenko, D Asheghali, IM Griffiths, HA Stone, S Minko

Angewandte Chemie 127 (46), 13817-13820

Touch-spinning and magnetospinning of nano-and microfibers

A Tokarev, D Asheghali, IM Griffiths, O Trotsenko, A Gruzd, X Lin, ...

Fiber Society 2015 Fall Meeting and Technical Conference-Fibers: Where …​

Magnetospinning of nano‐and microfibers

A Tokarev, O Trotsenko, IM Griffiths, HA Stone, S Minko

Advanced Materials 27 (23), 3560-3565

Patents

Nanofiber spinning apparatus and method.

U.S. Utility Patent No. 11001943. (May 11, 2021)

Methods and devices for multi-layer nanofibers.

U.S. Utility Patent No. 11,136,695 (Oct 5, 2021).

Methods and devices for making nanofibers and nanofiber scaffolds.

U. S. Utility Patent Appl No. US20210246575A1, February 3, 2022.

[CIP] U. S. Utility Patent Appl No. US20230174928A1, February 3, 2023.

For inquiries, please get in touch with us at info@cytonest.com.

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