scholarly journals Progress on the Fabrication and Application of Electrospun Nanofiber Composites

Membranes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariela Toriello ◽  
Morteza Afsari ◽  
Ho Kyong Shon ◽  
Leonard D. Tijing
Keyword(s):  
Composite Nanofibers ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Electrospun Nanofiber ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Energy Environment ◽  
The Many ◽  
Remarkable Progress

Nanofibers are one of the most attractive materials in various applications due to their unique properties and promising characteristics for the next generation of materials in the fields of energy, environment, and health. Among the many fabrication methods, electrospinning is one of the most efficient technologies which has brought about remarkable progress in the fabrication of nanofibers with high surface area, high aspect ratio, and porosity features. However, neat nanofibers generally have low mechanical strength, thermal instability, and limited functionalities. Therefore, composite and modified structures of electrospun nanofibers have been developed to improve the advantages of nanofibers and overcome their drawbacks. The combination of electrospinning technology and high-quality nanomaterials via materials science advances as well as new modification techniques have led to the fabrication of composite and modified nanofibers with desired properties for different applications. In this review, we present the recent progress on the fabrication and applications of electrospun nanofiber composites to sketch a progress line for advancements in various categories. Firstly, the different methods for fabrication of composite and modified nanofibers have been investigated. Then, the current innovations of composite nanofibers in environmental, healthcare, and energy fields have been described, and the improvements in each field are explained in detail. The continued growth of composite and modified nanofiber technology reveals its versatile properties that offer alternatives for many of current industrial and domestic issues and applications.

scholarly journals Electrospun Nanofibers for Sensing and Biosensing Applications—A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 6357
Author(s):  
Kinga Halicka ◽  
Joanna Cabaj
Keyword(s):  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Toxic Metal ◽  
Volume Ratio ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Clinical Diagnostics ◽  
Loading Capacity ◽  
Electrospun Nanofiber ◽  
Sensing Platforms ◽  
Different Types

Sensors and biosensors have found applications in many areas, e.g., in medicine and clinical diagnostics, or in environmental monitoring. To expand this field, nanotechnology has been employed in the construction of sensing platforms. Because of their properties, such as high surface area to volume ratio, nanofibers (NFs) have been studied and used to develop sensors with higher loading capacity, better sensitivity, and faster response time. They also allow to miniaturize designed platforms. One of the most commonly used techniques of the fabrication of NFs is electrospinning. Electrospun NFs can be used in different types of sensors and biosensors. This review presents recent studies concerning electrospun nanofiber-based electrochemical and optical sensing platforms for the detection of various medically and environmentally relevant compounds, including glucose, drugs, microorganisms, and toxic metal ions.

scholarly journals Electrospun nanofiber-based soft electronics

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Tomoyuki Yokota ◽  
Takao Someya
Keyword(s):  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Stretchable Electronics ◽  
Electrospun Nanofiber ◽  
Storage Devices ◽  
Stretchable Conductors ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Soft Electronics

AbstractElectrospun nanofibers have received considerable attention in the field of soft electronics owing to their promising advantages and superior properties in flexibility and/or stretchability, conductivity, and transparency; furthermore, their one-dimensional nanostructure, high surface area, and diverse fibrous morphologies are also desirable. Herein, we provide an overview of electrospun nanofiber-based soft electronics. A brief introduction of the unique structure and properties of electrospun nanofiber materials is provided, and assembly strategies for flexible/stretchable electronics are highlighted. We then summarize the latest progress in the design and fabrication of representative flexible/stretchable electronic devices utilizing electrospun nanofibers, such as flexible/stretchable conductors, sensors, energy harvesting and storage devices, and transistors. Finally, a conclusion and several future research directions for electrospun nanofiber-based soft electronics are proposed.

scholarly journals Electro Spun- Nanofibrous Mats: A Modern Wound Dressing Matrix with a Potential of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 155892501501000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seham Abdelhady ◽  
Khaled M. Honsy ◽  
Mallesh Kurakula
Keyword(s):  
Healing Process ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
External Agent ◽  
Masking Agents ◽  
Ordinary Time ◽  
Treatment Of Wounds ◽  
Chemical Materials

Nanofibers have emerged as advanced fibers with broad use and potential in biomedical fields in recent decades. The process of healing is an innate immune response towards a pathophysiology such as wound. Ordinary time taken for wound healing is approximately 2–3 days depending upon the chronic state. Air moisture and microbes risk pathological manifestations leading to delayed or incomplete palliate process. An external agent that can provide balanced moisture, increasing cell proliferation with microbial infiltration or anti- bacterial activity, aids to speed the healing process. Apart from these qualities, an ideal material should be simple, cost effective, and repeatable. Nanofibers produced through electrospinning have become a promising strategy in the treatment of wounds. Apart from being simple in application, they are produced from natural or synthetic polymers. Nanofibers exhibit high surface area, nanoporosity, with a potential to load potent drugs or enzymes. Other biomedical applications include use of nanofibers as tissue scaffolds and as masking agents in modern cosmetics. Therefore nanofibers are excellent candidates for wound treatment and management. The current review is an attempt to discuss and present literature about different techniques, chemical materials, and entities used to produce efficient electrospun nanofibers for use in pathological, medicinal, or treatment or management of injury or laceration.

scholarly journals Research Progress on the Applications of Electrospun Nanofibers in Catalysis

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
M. Olga Guerrero-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Volume Ratio ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Internal Diffusion ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Bibliographic Analysis ◽  
Low Resistance ◽  
Electro Catalysis

During the last two decades, electrospinning has become a very popular technique for the fabrication of nanofibers due to its low cost and simple handling. Nanofiber materials have found utilization in many areas such as medicine, sensors, batteries, etc. In catalysis, these materials also present important advantages, since they present a low resistance to internal diffusion and a high surface area to volume ratio. These advantages are mainly due to the diameter–length proportion. A bibliographic analysis on the applications of electrospun nanofibers in catalysis shows that there are two important groups of catalysts that are being investigated, based on TiO2 and in carbon materials. The main applications found are in photo- and in electro-catalysis. The present study contributes by reviewing these catalytic applications of electrospun nanofibers and demonstrating that they are promising materials as catalysts, underlining some works to prove the advantages and possibilities that these materials have as catalysts. On one hand, the possibilities of synthesis are almost infinite, since with coaxial electrospinning quite complex nanofibers with different layers can be prepared. On the other hand, the diameter and other properties can be controlled by monitoring the applied voltage and other parameters during the synthesis, being quite reproducible procedures. The main advantages of these materials can be grouped in two: one related to their morphology, as has been commented, relative to their low resistance and internal diffusion, that is, their fluidynamic behavior in the reactor; the second group involves advantages related to the fact that the active phases can be nanoscaled and dispersed, improving the activity and selectivity in comparison with conventional catalytic materials with the same chemical composition.

scholarly journals Properties of Electrospun TiO2Nanofibers

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Caratão ◽  
Edgar Carneiro ◽  
Pedro Sá ◽  
Bernardo Almeida ◽  
Sandra Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Analysis ◽  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Differential Thermal Analysis ◽  
Composite Nanofibers ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Optoelectronic Devices ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Electrospinning Technique ◽  
And Chemical Properties

Titanium oxide filled polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) composite nanofibers have been prepared via a simple electrospinning technique. The combination of good TiO2properties with its high surface area leads these nanofibers into having a vast applicability such as cosmetics, scaffolds for tissue engineering, catalytic devices, sensors, solar cells, and optoelectronic devices. The structural and chemical properties of the prepared samples have been studied. The presence of the TiO2phase on the nanofibers was confirmed. An anatase to rutile transformation was observed at 600°C. Regarding the thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TGA/DTA), the TIP decomposition and the PVP evaporation at 225°C were verified.

scholarly journals Graphene Oxide-Based Nanohybrids as Pesticide Biosensors: Latest Developments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navin Kumar Mogha
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Palladium Nanoparticles ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Inorganic Nanoparticles ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Gold Silver

Graphene is the most significant two-dimensional nanomaterial with sp2 hybridized carbon atoms in a honeycomb arrangement with an extremely high surface area, excellent electrical properties, high mechanical strength, and advantageous optical properties and is relatively easy to functionalize and mass produce. Various inorganic nanoparticles incorporated with graphene, such as gold, silver, and palladium nanoparticles are brought into sharp focus due to their catalytic, optical, electronic, and quantized charging/discharging properties. Graphene oxide-based nanohybrids are particularly well suited for biosensing applications and catalysis. Consequently, this area of research has grown to represent one of the largest classes within the scope of materials science and is rapidly becoming a key area in nanoscience and nanotechnology offering significant potential in the development of advanced materials in multiple and diverse applications. Here in this present chapter, synthesis, characterization of graphene oxide, and their nanohybrids are discussed thoroughly with their application in the field of pesticide biosensors. This chapter will help in a further understanding of graphene-based nanohybrids as a biosensing platform for their future applications in a sustainable environment.

scholarly journals Product Innovations from Electrospun Nanofibers

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Solubility ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Silver Ions ◽  
Solvent System ◽  
Cellulose Microfibrils ◽  
Poly Lactic Acid ◽  
Innovative Products

The article reviews some significant research trends in the development of innovative products from electrospun nanofibers. In one area of investigation, high surface area poly (lactic acid) (PLA)/tea polyphenols (TPs) porous composite nanofiber membranes (CNFMs) were prepared successfully by electrospinning and applied to adsorption of silver ions. In another area of research electrospun PVA/SiO2 separator membranes were presented and their electrochemical performance was evaluated for use in Li-ion batteries. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) was used to prepare nanofiber based membranes due to advantages such as low cost, water solubility, and biodegradability. In yet another work, a mixture of formic acid (FA), acetic acid (AA), and acetone was used, for the first time, as a ternary solvent system to dissolve poly(E-caprolactone) (PCL). In addition, as a biomaterial reinforcement, various amounts of cellulose microfibrils (CMF) (1.5, 3, and 5wt. %), extracted from rice husk, were added to PCL solution, and subsequently the prepared suspensions were individually electrospun.

scholarly journals Applications of electrospun nanofibers in the biomedical field

SURG Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishath Khan
Keyword(s):  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Volume Ratio ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Biomedical Field ◽  
Highly Porous

Electrospinning is a technology that has been widely used as a novel method for the generation of nano scale fibres. Electrospun fibres are used in a wide range of applications from electronics to textile. The viability and popularity of this technology can be evidenced by its ease of use and the simplicity of the science behind building the electrospinning machine. The generated fibres have a high surface area- to- volume ratio, the fibrous mats are highly porous and display excellent mechanical properties when compared to other materials of the same scale. In the past decade, this technology has taken off with the use of biocompatible and biodegradable polymers. This review is a summary of the different ways in which electrospinning can be used in the biomedical field. This article analyzes the recent advances of this technology in tissue engineering, drug delivery and in enzyme immobilisation, which once again showcases the versatility of the electrospinning procedure.

scholarly journals Electrospun nanofibers: A nanotechnological approach for drug delivery and dissolution optimization in poorly water-soluble drugs

ADMET & DMPK ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Castillo-Henríquez ◽  
Rolando Vargas-Zúñiga ◽  
Jorge Pacheco-Molina ◽  
Jose Vega-Baudrit
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Poorly Water Soluble Drugs ◽  
Small Pore ◽  
Water Soluble Drugs ◽  
Poorly Water Soluble ◽  
Surface Morphologies

<p class="ADMETabstracttext">Electrospinning is a novel and sophisticated technique for the production of nanofibers with high surface area, extreme porous structure, small pore size, and surface morphologies that make them suitable for biomedical and bioengineering applications, which can provide solutions to current drug delivery issues of poorly water-soluble drugs. Electrospun nanofibers can be obtained through different methods asides from the conventional one, such as coaxial, multi-jet, side by side, emulsion, and melt electrospinning. In general, the application of an electric potential to a polymer solution causes a charged liquid jet that moves downfield to an oppositely charged collector, where the nanofibers are deposited. Plenty of polymers that differ in their origin, degradation character and water affinity are used during the process. Physicochemical properties of the drug, polymer(s), and solvent systems need to be addressed to guarantee successful manufacturing. Therefore, this review summarizes the recent progress in electrospun nanofibers for their use as a nanotechnological tool for dissolution optimization and drug delivery systems for poorly water-soluble drugs.</p>

The Applications of Electrospun Nanofibers in the Medical Materials

2010 ◽  
Vol 148-149 ◽  
pp. 1138-1143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Zhang ◽  
Xiao Ming Qian
Keyword(s):  
Porous Structure ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Volume Ratio ◽  
Electrospun Nanofibers ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Electrospun Nanofiber ◽  
Medical Materials ◽  
Novel Processing

Electrospinning is a novel processing technique for the production of nanofiber non-woven materials and nanofiber non-woven materials have extremely high surface-to-mass (or volume) ratio and a porous structure .for the advantages of electrospun nanofiber non-woven materials, it can be used many filed. This review introduction the progress of electrospun nanofibers and summarize the application of electro spun nanofibers in the medical materials filed.

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