This paper provides a comprehensive overview on the properties of electrospun nanofibers
and their application as reinforcements in composites. The paper first introduces the …

Aromatic polyimides (PIs) are high-performance polymers with rigid heterocyclic imide rings
and aromatic benzene rings in their macromolecular backbones. Owing to excellent …

High mechanical performance electrospun polymeric nanofibers are highly desired for
practical applications, especially as reinforcements for composites. However, most of the …

The use of large amounts of environmentally unfriendly, toxic, and flammable organic
solvents in electrospinning of polymers puts demand on the development of new methods …

Polyamide-imides (PAIs) are highly desired in many applications because of their superior
thermal and mechanical properties. In this work, PAI was prepared from an amide …

Mechanical properties of polyimide (PI) electrospun nanofibers could be improved by
increasing imidization temperatures. However, the intrinsic mechanism on this phenomenon …

Electrospun polyimide (PI) nanofibers with excellent mechanical and thermal properties are
highly required in composites, filtration, battery separators, proton exchange membranes …

This study examines the effects of electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) fiber density and
strain rate on nanofiber mat mechanical properties. An automated track collection system …

High-performance carbon nanofibers are highly dependent on the performance of their
precursors, especially polyacrylonitrile (PAN). In this work, the copolymer of PAN (coPAN) …

Electrospun polyimide (PI) nanofibers possessed high tensile strength (δ), but the breaking
load (BL) is very small. It is also a challenge to prepare electrospun PI microfibers from the …