Nanofibers, electrospinning

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K. Desai and C. Sung. Electrospinning nanofibers of PANl/PMMA blends. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 736 Electronics on Unconventional Substrates— Electrotextiles and Giant-Area Flexible Circuits), Boston, 121 126 (2002). 

Nagarajan, R., Drew, C. and Mello, C.M. (2007) Polymer—micelle complex as an aid to electrospinning nanofibers from aqueous solutions. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111, 16105-16108. 

Li R, Zhao Y, and Song Y, 2010. Core-Sheii Nanofibers Nano Channel and Capsule by Coaxial Electrospinning, Nanofibers, Ashok Kumar (Ed.), InTech. ISBN 978-953-7619-86-2,001 10.5772/8166. 

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Li, D. Wang, Y. Xia, Y. Electrospinning Nanofibers as Uniaxially Aligned Arrays and Layer-by-Layer Stacked Films, <7v.A7are , 2004,16(14), 361-366. 

Superhydrophobicity, electrospinning, nanofibers, oleophobicity, hierarchical roughness, robustness... 

Yarin A L, Kataphinan W and Reneker D H (2005) Branching in electrospinning nanofibers, J Appl Phys 98 064501. 

Figure 10.10 is reprinted from Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 98, 2005, Authors Yarin A L, Kataphinan W and Reneker D H, Title Branching in electrospinning nanofibers, pp. 064501/1-12, Copyright (2005), with permission from Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 

Keywords Electrospinning Nanofibers Nanocomposites Wound healing Tissue engineering... 

Polymer solution parameters are certain variables related to the physical properties of the polymer solution used for electrospinning nanofibers such as polymer concentration, polymer solution viscosity, polymer molecular weight, solution charge density, conductivity, volatility, surface tension, dielectric constant, and dipole moment. These variables are hard to be altered since changing one of those variables would consequently change some of the others. An example of that is the alteration in the polymer solution viscosity upon changing its conductivity (Pham et al. 2006). 

E Li, Y Zho, Y. Song, Core-shell nanofibers Nano channel and capsule by coaxial electrospinning, Nanofibers, ISBN 978-953-7619-86-2, Chap. 22,420-438, 2010. 

Li, D., Y. Wang, and Y. Xia (2004c). Electrospinning nanofibers as uniaxially aligned arrays and layer-by-layer stacked films. Advanced Materials 16(4) 361-366. 

Cho et al. [34] made polyacrylonitrile membranes by electrospinning nanofibers. Membranes ranging from 25 to 35 gm thick were made. The membranes had very high ionic permeabiHty as evidenced by MacMuUin numbers (see Section 20.7) ranging from 3.7 to 6.4 versus 12 for a conventional microporous polyolefin membrane. The dry membranes showed no shrinkage at 200 °C. However, when placed in coin cells the membranes exhibited extensive shrinkage at 150 °C. 

As introduced above, much effort has been applied to electrospun polymer nanofibers to comprehend the fundamental phenomena of fabrication process as well as the physical and chemical properties from the material science viewpoint. Consequently, researchers are able to flexibly control the fiber component, morphology, and aggregate structure, which have provided much impetus to the dream of realizing the applications of electrospun nanofibers [2, 30, 35]. Particularly, electrospinning nanofibers have provided important evidence of the potential roles in solving the energy and environmental issues, which are the most important factors that influence fhe sociefy in the twenty-first century. 

Petrik, S. Maly. M. Production Nozzle-Less Electrospinning Nanofiber Technology, 2009. 

Gensheimer M, Becker M, Heep AB, Wendorff LH, Thauer RK, Greiner A (2007) Novel biohybrid materials by electrospinning nanofibers of poly(ethylene oxide) and living bacteria. Adv Mater 19 2480-2482... 

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