Agricultural, Electrical, Optical, and Other Applications

Plants can be covered with a web that produced by electrospun nanofibers (Fig. 2.10]. One of the functions of this web is protection against harmful insects and chemicals. It can be used as a greenhouse covering and in fertilizer applications, which are injected to the web before. 

Production of nanofibers that have the ability to transmit electricity creates many advantages. These nanofibers are used in the production of small electronic devices and in the fabrication of some machines. Because the surface area of the electrodes is proportional to the chemical reaction speed, electrospun nanofiber membranes are used appropriately in the production of improved high-performance batteries. 

Nanofibers also used for sensors because their high specific area allows them to sorb and/or react rapidly with low levels of analytes in the air. It is reasonable therefore to expectbetter performance from nanofiber sensors. 

The other potential applications of nanofibers are wires, capacitors, transistors, and diodes for information technology and enzyme carriers. The application of nanofibers in textiles is not aimed only at specialized industries involved in technical textiles.  

The photocatalytic activity of these nanofibers was used to decompose the aqueous suspension of methylene blue (MB) under U V light at room temperature. The concentration of dye solution was measured with UV irradiation time by using a UV-Vis spectrometer. To monitor the change in concentration of MB, the absorbance spectra of MB were recorded at its maximum absorption against time (Fig 2.12).  

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