Nanofiber mats inorganic nanofibers

Biyikli, N., and Uyar, T. (2012) Polymer-inorganic core-shell nanofibers by electrospinning and atomic layer deposition flexible nylon-ZnO core-shell nanofiber mats and their photocatalytic activity. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 4, 6185-6194. 

Hydroxyapatite [Ca5(P04)3(0H)] can be made into an inorganic nanofiber mat by electrospinning an inorganic precursor mixture of a calcium salt, triethoxy phosphine, and a polymer, followed by calcinations (Wu et al. 2004). 

As mentioned above, doping nanofibers by an inorganic phase, such as nano- or microparticles of hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate, or fabricating architectures with solid particles densely deposited in the voids of nanofibrous mats are valuable methods for producing scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. In general, hydroxyapatite is more stable and exhibits much... 

The electrical and mechanical stability of metal oxide nanofibers fabricated on electrode substrates is one of the most important issues [42]. In order to obtain superior mechanical strength between Ti02 fiber mats and a substrate, a thermocompression step was introduced prior to the calcination step in the creation of inorganic precursor/polymer composite nanofibers. For example, as-spun Ti02 precursor/PVAc composite fibers were hot pressed at 120 °C for 10 min. 

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