Dear Mohammad

W. Li  et al., J. Biomechanics, 40, 1686, 2007

is a nice article to start with this topic.

Regards

Marc

Dear Mohammad,

I think this one may give you some info, L. Huang, S.S. Manickam, J.R. McCutcheon. Increasing strength of electrospun nanofiber membranes for water filtration using solvent vapour. Journal of Membrane Science 2013; 213-220. DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.12.037.

Sincere regards

Mokhena Teboho

Dear Mohammad,

Please try to find articles related to spider-net nanofibers.

the mechanical properties should be changed. It depends a few parameters, the fiber elasticity, alignment, fibrous network characteristics. from your pic, it is difficult to predict increase or decrease in the strength. Testing it is the best way.

The mechanical properties would definitely change. The overlap seems to be non uniform and they have to be analysed seperately.

 we test it for mechanical property. you can see the results in attached pictures! 

it is dramatically decreased, while the papers say when the fiber bonding occur you must see increasing in tensile strength. But these result is only for unite polymer electrospinning not for blending with a natural polymer like collagen!

what do you think?

Based on your results, I would say the compliance of the fused or linked fibers got decreased; and additionally, the ability of the fibers to align together under loading got decreased, those things gives rise to the decrease in strength.  To look into these effect, you should quantitatively characterize the geometry of the fibrous network and the density of the fusion and crosslinking, etc. 

Thanks Zhonggang

can you introduce an article about "ability of the network fibers to align together under loading" that i can refer it in my manuscript?

You may check my recent paper "A fibril-based structural constitutive theory reveals ... " published in Biomaterials. It may give you some inside look on the mechanical properties of fibrous network materials and the major affecting factors. Best regards,