Challenges and advances in materials and fabrication technologies of small-diameter vascular grafts

Biomaterials Research

Table 1 Overview of graft materials

Graft materials	Molecular weight	Polymer solution concentration	Inner Diameter (mm)	Burst pressure (mmHg)	Ref
Rat aorta	-	-	-	1043 ± 326	[30]
Human arteries	-	-	-	2031 ~ 4225	[27]
ePTFE	-	-	1.0	2715 ± 33	[28]
PET (Dacron®)	-	-	-	4145 ± 207	[26]
Nonwoven PET	-	-	4.7	1509 ± 175	[26]
PU	-	15 wt% in THF/DMF (3:1 v/v)	2.0	1156 ± 149	[29]
PU/PCL	1:1 ratio	10 wt% in chloroform/ethanol (7:3); 15 wt% in THF/DMF (3:1 v/v)	2.0	2017 ± 72	[29]
PCL	80 kDa	15% in CHCl₃/EtOH (70% v/v)	2.0	3280 ± 280	[32]
PLLA/PCL	130 kDa	6% in 2, 2, 2-trifluoroethanol	1.0	3175 ± 438	[25]
PET/PU	4:1 ratio	18 wt% in HFIP	4.0	1787.64 ± 76.61	[33]

Chloroform (CHCl₃); ethanol (EtOH); N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF); tetrahydrofuran (THF); 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol (HFIP)

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