New Advances in Polymer Electrospun Fibers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Fibers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 3989
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanofibers; electrospinning; nanofiltration; thin film
Interests: vascular grafts; electrospun scaffolds; tissue engineering; biopolymers; nanofibrous webs
Interests: membrane; nanofiber; electrospinning; surface modification; filtration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electrospinning creates nanometer-to-micrometer polymer fibers. Electrospun fibers are now used in tissue engineering, drug delivery, and energy storage due to improvements in electrospinning.
Electrospinning with multi-component polymer systems has produced fibers with customized characteristics. Combining polymers improves fiber mechanical strength, biocompatibility, and drug loading capacity.
Functionalized electrospun fibers represent another advancement in this field. The addition of functional molecules such as enzymes or antibodies to fibers creates materials with specialized biological or chemical capabilities. Biosensors and drug delivery may use these functionalized fibers.
Hybrid electrospinning polymer–metal or polymer–ceramic composites represent another advancement. These materials can be used for energy storage and catalysis.
Finally, electrospinning involves advanced fiber alignment and orientation procedures. Fiber orientation can form anisotropic mechanical, electrical, and optical materials. Tissue engineering and electronics may use these materials.
In conclusion, electrospinning has produced polymer fibers with customized properties and functions. Researchers in the fields of tissue engineering, drug delivery, energy storage, and catalysis can use these fibers.
Dr. Baturalp Yalcinkaya
Dr. Ipek Yalcin Enis
Dr. Fatma Yalcinkaya
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electrospinning
- spun nanofibers
- polymers
- nanocomposite
- nanofibrous materials
- nanostructures
- nanoparticles
- functionalized nanofibers