Nanofibers applications

Hromadka M, Collins J, Reed C, Han L, Kolappa K, Cairns B, Andrady A and van Aalst J (2008) Nanofiber applications for burn care, J Burn Care Res 29 695-703. 

Application of Composite Reinforcements Based on Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers Applications in life science... 

Fig. 9 a Pie chart representing electrospun nanofibers applications in US patents, and b different applications of electrospun polymer nanofibers. Adopted with modifications from Huang et al. (2003)... 

Structure The polymers are produced as powders or as films on the electrodes. Most conductive polymers have a fibrous structure, each fiber consisting of hundreds of strands of polymer molecules. Techniques exist to control fiber preparation so as to obtain nanofibers expected to be particularly useful as catalyst substrates and in electronic applications (MacDiannid, 2000). 

Nanosized objects perform various functions in the biomedical field. In the human body, nanosized particulate substances behave very differently from larger particles. In 1986, Maeda et al. found that the stained albumin, having a size of several nanometers, naturally accumulates in the region of cancerous tissues, which is now well known as the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. Many studies in the field of nanoparticles are based on this finding. Another application of nanoparticles is the delivery system using various polyplexes that are composed of carrier molecules and plasmid DNA or nucleic acid drugs such as antisenses and siRNA. In addition, nanofibers are mainly used for biodegradable scaffolds in tissue... 

Bessel, C. et al., Graphite nanofibers as an electrode for fuel cell applications, /. Phys. Chem., 105, 1115, 2001. 

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