Melt electrospinning today: An opportune time for an emerging polymer process

TD Brown, PD Dalton, DW Hutmacher - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, melt electrospinning has emerged as an alternative polymer
processing technology to alleviate concerns associated with solvents in traditional …

Recent advances in nanofibrous membranes: Production and applications in water treatment and desalination

H Saleem, L Trabzon, A Kilic, SJ Zaidi - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Desalination of seawater is a promising technique that contributes a reliable and abundant
source of clean potable water. This review investigates the current status and forthcoming …

Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications

M Rinaudo - Progress in polymer science, 2006 - Elsevier
Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

A review: electrospinning of biopolymer nanofibers and their applications

JD Schiffman, CL Schauer - Polymer reviews, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Electrospinning is a fabrication technique, which can be used to create nanofibrous non‐
wovens from a variety of starting materials. The structure, chemical and mechanical stability …

A review on biopolymer-based fibers via electrospinning and solution blowing and their applications

A Kumar, S Sinha-Ray - Fibers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Electrospinning, for the last few decades, has been extensively acknowledged for its ability
to manufacture a macro/nanofibrous architecture from biopolymers, which is otherwise …

A review of polymer nanofibres by electrospinning and their application in oil–water separation for cleaning up marine oil spills

R Sarbatly, D Krishnaiah, Z Kamin - Marine pollution bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
The growths of oil and gas exploration and production activities have increased
environmental problems, such as oil spillage and the resulting pollution. The study of the …

Uniaxially aligned electrospun all-cellulose nanocomposite nanofibers reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals: scaffold for tissue engineering

X He, Q Xiao, C Lu, Y Wang, X Zhang, J Zhao… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Uniaxially aligned cellulose nanofibers with well oriented cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs)
embedded were fabricated via electrospinning using a rotating drum as the collector …

Nanofibers with diameter below one nanometer from electrospinning

S Jian, J Zhu, S Jiang, S Chen, H Fang, Y Song… - RSC …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Sub-nanometer materials have received wide attention due to their unique properties in
recent years. Most studies focus on the preparation and properties investigation of the …

Recent advances in needleless electrospinning of ultrathin fibers: from academia to industrial production

M Yu, RH Dong, X Yan, GF Yu, MH You… - Macromolecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospinning (e‐spinning) has been extensively explored as a simple, versatile, and cost‐
effective method in preparing ultrathin fibers from a wide variety of materials. Electrospun (e …

[PDF][PDF] Technology of nano-fibers: Production techniques and properties-Critical review

AA Almetwally, M El-Sakhawy, MH Elshakankery… - J. Text …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Different methods can be used for nanofibers fabrication such as bicomponent extrusion,
template synthesis, self assembly, phase separation, meltblowing, drawing, electrospinning …