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 …

Functional materials by electrospinning of polymers

S Agarwal, A Greiner, JH Wendorff - Progress in Polymer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
About a decade ago electrospinning was primarily concerned with the preparation of
nanofibers from synthetic polymers and to a lower degree from natural polymers targeting …

Centrifugal spinning: an alternative approach to fabricate nanofibers at high speed and low cost

X Zhang, Y Lu - Polymer Reviews, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Nanofibers are an important class of material that is useful in a variety of applications,
including filtration, tissue engineering, protective clothing, battery separators, energy …

Advances and prospects for whispering gallery mode microcavities

S Yang, Y Wang, H Sun - Advanced Optical Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microlasers have experienced tremendous development in the past decade and become an
essential part in laser evolution, as miniature lasers provide strong optical confinement and …

Electrospinning of nanofibers: reinventing the wheel?

D Li, Y Xia - Advanced materials, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospinning provides a simple and versatile method for generating ultrathin fibers from a
rich variety of materials that include polymers, composites, and ceramics. This article …

Electrospinning: a fascinating method for the preparation of ultrathin fibers

A Greiner, JH Wendorff - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospinning is a highly versatile method to process solutions or melts, mainly of
polymers, into continuous fibers with diameters ranging from a few micrometers to a few …

Nanofibers and their applications in tissue engineering

R Vasita, DS Katti - International Journal of nanomedicine, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Developing scaffolds that mimic the architecture of tissue at the nanoscale is one of the
major challenges in the field of tissue engineering. The development of nanofibers has …

One-dimensional nanostructures of π-conjugated molecular systems: assembly, properties, and applications from photovoltaics, sensors, and nanophotonics to …

FS Kim, G Ren, SA Jenekhe - Chemistry of Materials, 2011 - ACS Publications
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the literature on one-dimensional (1D)
nanostructures (nanowires, nanoribbons, nanotubes, nanobelts, and nanofibers) of π …

Spinning continuous fibers for nanotechnology

Y Dzenis - Science, 2004 - science.org
Nanotubes of carbon and other mate-rials are arguably the most fascinating materials
playing an important role in nanotechnology today. Their unique mechanical, electronic, and …

Potential of nanofiber matrix as tissue-engineering scaffolds

Z Ma, M Kotaki, R Inai, S Ramakrishna - Tissue engineering, 2005 - liebertpub.com
Tissue-engineering scaffolds should be analogous to native extracellular matrix (ECM) in
terms of both chemical composition and physical structure. Polymeric nanofiber matrix is …