Textile replacement for tympanic membrane and hip endoprosthesis

The textile membrane enables a complete, permanent and lifelike reconstruction of the eardrum (D Aibibu). Tests have shown that the textile replacement eardrum has the same vibration characteristics as a real eardrum.
Materials are polycaprolactone, a biodegradable plastic, and silk fibroin, a protein extracted from the cocoons of silkworms. Using an electrospinning process, which is also used to make stents for regenerative medicine, very fine threads are drawn from this protein-plastic solution and laid down to form a textile replacement eardrum.