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Schematic of Rotary Jet Spinning Process

Caption: Left: A diagram of the rotary jet spinner; upper right: The resulting "spun" nanofibers; bottom right: The nanofibers viewed at 10um.

Credit: Kit Parker, Disease Biophysics Group at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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