Encyclopedia of Membranes

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Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes

  • Martina Roso
  • Carlo Boaretti
  • Alessandra Lorenzetti
  • Michele Modesti
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Introduction

Nanofibers are an interesting and versatile class of one-dimensional (1-D) nanomaterials, with diameters ranging from tenths to hundreds of nanometers, which have been recognized as promising due to their outstanding properties in terms of high porosity, excellent pore interconnectivity, small diameters, and high surface-to-volume ratio. Among the different nanofiber manufacturing technologies, electrostatic spinning or electrospinning represents the easiest, most promising, and versatile method for the generation of aligned or randomly distributed nanofibers of a rich variety of different materials like synthetic and natural polymers (Huang et al. 2003), composites (Sahay et al. 2012), ceramics (Dai et al. 2011), and metals (Wu et al. 2007).

With this technique that is essentially a variation of the electrostatic spray (or electrospraying), a fiber is produced thanks to the solidification of an electrified jet of a solution that is stretched by the repulsive action of...

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Martina Roso
    • 1
  • Carlo Boaretti
    • 1
  • Alessandra Lorenzetti
    • 1
  • Michele Modesti
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Industrial EngineeringUniversity of PadovaPadovaItaly