Introduction to Electrospinning

Electrospinning is a nanofiber production technique from a wide range of polymeric materials. In this section, an introduction to electrospinning process and starting materials, along with the applications of electrochemical sensors based on nanofibrous mats fabricated by the electrospinning process, will be discussed. 

Electrospinning can be defined as a technique used to produce nanofibers from a reservoir of reactive precursor species expelled through a nozzle, the tip of which is held at high voltage, the fibers being collected on a grounded plate. [2] 

To control the final fiber properties, a number of variables must be taken into consideration. In addition to the choice of the polymer and solvent [50], it is of importance for other variables, such as (1) applied high voltage, flow rate, tip-to-collector distance, polymer concentration, conductivity, volatility of the solution, temperature, and relative humidity within the chamber [51 -54], All of them can vary the diameter [55], pore size or morphology [51, 56], and surface chemistry [57] of the resulting fibers [35,44, 58, 59], Operating diagrams that are able to predict the experimental parameters required for the process have been proposed [60], 

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Ramakrishna, S., 2005. An Introduction to Electrospinning and Nanofibers. World Scientific, Singapore Hackensack, NJ xi, 382 pp. 

An Introduction to Electrospinning and Nanofihers, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore. 

An Introduction to Electrospinning and Nanofibers, World Scientihc Publishing, Singapore. 

Wang L, Ryan AJ (2011) Chapter 1 Introduction to electrospinning. In Electrospinning for tissue regeneration. Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge... 

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