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A review on polymer nanofibers by electrospinning and their applications in nanocomposites

Electrospinning: a fascinating fiber fabrication technique.

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 nanometers. This technique is applicable to virtually every soluble or fusible polymer. The polymers can be chemically modified and can also be tailored with additives ranging from simple carbon-black particles to complex species such as enzymes, viruses, and bacteria. Electrospinning appears to be straightforward, but is a rather intricate process that depends on a multitude of molecular, process, and technical parameters. The method provides access to entirely new materials, which may have complex chemical structures. Electrospinning is not only a focus of intense academic investigation; the technique is already being applied in many technological areas.

Electrospinning: A Fascinating Method for the Preparation of Ultrathin Fibers

Electrospinning: Applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering

Antimicrobial properties of chitosan and mode of action: A state of the art review

The effect of processing variables on the morphology of electrospun nanofibers and textiles

Electrospinning of polymer nanofibers with specific surface chemistry

Processing and characterization of reactive polystyrene/hyperbranched polyester blends

A small angle scattering study of dendrimer–copper sulfide nanocomposites

Dendritic polymers have been used as soluble templates/unimolecular reactors from which nano-clusters of inorganic compounds were synthesized. These organic/inorganic, dendrimerbased hybrid species or “nanocomposites” display unusual properties, i.e., their solubility is deterrnined by the properties of the dendrimer molecules. Since it has been established that there is no covalent bond between the dendrimer host and the inorganic guest, these observations suggest that the guests are physically and spatially restricted by the dendrimer shell. However, this structure has not been verified. In this investigation a preliminary understanding of the physical structure of these dendrimer-based nanocomposites was sought. A model system of PAMAM dendrimer-copper sulfide nanocomposites was studied in various stages of its formation using a combination of small angle X-ray and neutron scattering experiments. The results suggest that little perturbation of the dendritic species occurs on complexation, but indicate that a secondary supermolecular aggregation phenomena occurs within nanocomposite solutions.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1946427400179655

N.C Beck Tan

Papers

The effect of processing variables on the morphology of electrospun nanofibers and textiles

Electrospinning of polymer nanofibers with specific surface chemistry

Processing and characterization of reactive polystyrene/hyperbranched polyester blends

A small angle scattering study of dendrimer–copper sulfide nanocomposites

Characterization of Dendrimer-Based Nanocomposites by Saxs and Sans