Recent Advances in Electrospinning of Polymeric Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 170
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrospinning; rheology; constitutive modeling; behavior of polymeric materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: electrospinning; morphology of nanofibers; nanospider technology; nanomaterials; filtration; drug delivery systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the onset of nanotechnology, the process of electrospinning has proven to be a very cheap and efficient method for producing nano- and micro-fibrous materials. In spite of its relatively easy scheme, there exist many challenges with this technology, as a number of polymers, solvents, polymer solutions, and processing parameters make this process complex.
The Special Issue "Recent Advances in Electrospinning of Polymeric Materials" serves as a platform to publish results concerning various branches of the electrospinning process, starting from the choice of polymeric material and solvent, a description of the process between the Taylor cones and collector, the quality of electrospun nano- and micro-fibrous materials and their morphologies, relations between the entry parameters and their potential mutual dependence on the quality of nano- and micro-fibers.
Contributions related to the application of electrospun materials in various branches such as medicine or filtration are also welcome, as are manuscripts covering aspects related to the environment (for instance, the usage of recycled polymeric materials). Nanofibrous materials with good properties are achieved by blending the polymers or inserting additives (such as nanoparticles), also depending on how they are inserted. Functionalization techniques of electrospun materials are a really interesting part of the recent advances in electrospinning. These include the surface functionalization of nanofibers, co-axial or emulsion electrospinning, etc. Each technique has different advantages allowing the fabrication of novel nanofibrous materials.
We wish look forward to receiving your contributions that address and attempt to solve these interesting problems.
Prof. Dr. Petr Filip
Dr. Daniela Lubasová
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electrospinning methods
- polymeric materials
- solvents
- nano- and micro-fibers
- visualization
- rheology
- recycled materials
- surface irregularities
- nanoparticles
- functionalization
- process parameters
