Nanoparticles meet electrospinning: recent advances and future prospects

CL Zhang, SH Yu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanofibres can be fabricated by various methods and perhaps electrospinning is the most
facile route. In past years, electrospinning has been used as a synthesis technique and the …

Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications

M Rinaudo - Progress in polymer science, 2006 - Elsevier
Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

A review: electrospinning of biopolymer nanofibers and their applications

JD Schiffman, CL Schauer - Polymer reviews, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Electrospinning is a fabrication technique, which can be used to create nanofibrous non‐
wovens from a variety of starting materials. The structure, chemical and mechanical stability …

Putting electrospun nanofibers to work for biomedical research

J **e, X Li, Y **a - Macromolecular rapid communications, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospinning has been exploited for almost one century to process polymers and related
materials into nanofibers with controllable compositions, diameters, porosities, and porous …

Functionalized polymer nanofibers: a versatile platform for manipulating light at the nanoscale

P Wang, Y Wang, L Tong - Light: Science & Applications, 2013 - nature.com
As an organic optical fiber with a diameter comparable to or less than the wavelength of
light, polymer nanofibers have been attracting increasing attention as a platform for …

Immobilization technology: a sustainable solution for biofuel cell design

XY Yang, G Tian, N Jiang, BL Su - Energy & Environmental Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Biofuel cells provide a versatile means to generate electrical power from environmentally
friendly biomass or biofuels. Immobilization technology has played an important role in the …

A review on electrospun polymer nanostructures as advanced bioactive platforms

S Torres‐Giner, R Pérez‐Masiá… - Polymer Engineering & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This review article deals with latest literature studies on the potential use of polymer ultrathin
and nanosized structures obtained by electrospinning to design novel engineered materials …

A peptide-based nanofibrous hydrogel as a promising DNA nanovector for optimizing the efficacy of HIV vaccine

Y Tian, H Wang, Y Liu, L Mao, W Chen, Z Zhu, W Liu… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
This report shows that a nanovector composed of peptide-based nanofibrous hydrogel can
condense DNA to result in strong immune responses against HIV. This nanovector can …

Recent progress in the preparation, characterization, and applications of nanofibers and nanofiber membranes via electrospinning/interfacial polymerization

C Feng, KC Khulbe, T Matsuura - Journal of Applied Polymer …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Significant progress has been made recently in the fabrication of polymeric nanofibers, their
characterization and applications, new polymeric materials, theoretical analysis, and so …

Quantifying polymer chain orientation in strong and tough nanofibers with low crystallinity: toward next generation nanostructured superfibers

D Papkov, N Delpouve, L Delbreilh, S Araujo… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Advanced fibers revolutionized structural materials in the second half of the 20th century.
However, all high-strength fibers developed to date are brittle. Recently, pioneering …