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    Application of Nanofibers in Ophthalmic Tissue Engineering

    This chapter describes recently designed and developed nanofiber scaffolds used for ophthalmic tissue engineering applications. In recent decades, ophthalmic diseases have been a significant health concern thr...

    Davood Kharaghani, Muhammad Qamar Khan, Ick Soo Kim in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Nanofibers for Medical Textiles

    This chapter introduces the nanofibers for medical textiles. Nanofibers possess the various unique characteristics, which enable them to be used for different fields of advanced textiles. The structure of pl...

    Muhammad Qamar Khan, Davood Kharaghani, Zeeshan Khatri… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Carbohydrate-Based Nanofibers: Applications and Potentials

    Carbohydrate polymers have recently attracted great interest from academia and industry as one of the most abundant polymers in the world. Homopolymers or copolymers of monosaccharides, known as polysaccharide...

    Sajad Bahrami, Moein Adel, Fariba Esmaeili, Seyed Mahdi Rezayat… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Design of Heterogeneities and Interfaces with Nanofibers in Fuel Cell Membranes

    Many fuel cell membranes are highly heterogeneous systems comprising mechanical and chemical reinforcing components, including porous polymer sheets, nanofibers or nanoparticles, as well as radical scavengers ...

    Marta Zatoń, Sara Cavaliere, Deborah J. Jones, Jacques Rozière in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Functional Nanofiber for Drug Delivery Applications

    Electrospinning is an appropriate process to fabricate nanofibers for various applications. Regarding the intrinsically high surface-to-volume ratio of electrospun fibers, they are suitable candidates for drug...

    Rana Imani, Maryam Yousefzadeh, Shirin Nour in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Nanofibers for Membrane Applications

    Electrospun nanofiber membranes (ENMs) are the next-generation materials that offer solutions to global issues in diverse applications including health, energy, and environmental applications. Polymeric nanofi...

    Anbharasi Vanangamudi, **ng Yang, Mikel C. Duke, Ludovic F. Dumée in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Recent Trends in Nanofiber-Based Anticorrosion Coatings

    Various forms of polymer coatings have been applied in corrosion-control attempts to prolong the useful life of materials. The drawback of polymer coating systems, however, is the inability to function if the ...

    Akihiro Yabuki, Indra W. Fathona in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Nanofibers and Biofilm in Materials Science

    In this chapter biofilms are introduced. Also their relationship with nanofibers is described from the viewpoint of materials science. To start, the background information for this topic is presented and expla...

    Hideyuki Kanematsu, Dana M. Barry, Hajime Ikegai… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Different Methods for Nanofiber Design and Fabrication

    Over the past few years, there has been a tremendous increase in the demand for polymeric nanofibers which are promising candidates for various applications including tissue engineering, blood vessels, nervous...

    Ibrahim Alghoraibi, Sandy Alomari in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Design of Porous, Core-Shell, and Hollow Nanofibers

    Electrospinning can be used to prepare various organic or inorganic nanofibrous structures. These structures could be related to the nanofibers arrangement relative to each other, as random, aligned, 3D, and y...

    Maryam Yousefzadeh, Farzaneh Ghasemkhah in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Nanofibers for Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

    Nanofibers are fibers having dimensions in the nanometric range of few tens to 1000 nm. Advantages of nanofibers include their high surface-area-to-volume ratio resulting in enhanced drug solubility, high poro...

    Priyanka Prabhu in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Engineering Nanofibers as Electrode and Membrane Materials for Batteries, Supercapacitors, and Fuel Cells

    Energy and environment are two major problems facing mankind today. Develo** environment-friendly and energy-saving technology has always been the focuses of researchers all over the world. Batteries, superc...

    Liu Haichao, Haoyi Li, Mahmoud Mohammed Bubakir, Weimin Yang… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Characterization and Evaluation of Nanofiber Materials

    Characterization of nanofiber is performed to correlate test metrics with the practical characteristics of the material and to ensure reliable high quality of the products during production. The aim of single-...

    Taha Roodbar Shojaei, Abdollah Hajalilou, Meisam Tabatabaei… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Nanofiber Technologies: History and Development

    Nanofibers are defined as fibers with diameters on the order of 100 nm. Nanofibers have been considered one of the top interesting studied materials for academicians and one of the greatest intriguing material...

    Ahmed Barhoum, Rahimeh Rasouli, Maryam Yousefzadeh, Hubert Rahier… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Native Crystalline Polysaccharide Nanofibers: Processing and Properties

    Native polysaccharide nanocrystals have gained increasing interest as fibrous reinforcement in nanocomposites. Unique mechanical properties combined with biodegradability and renewability have placed them as a...

    Pieter Samyn, Anayancy Osorio-Madrazo in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Cellulose Nanofibers: Fabrication and Surface Functionalization Techniques

    Cellulose fibers which consist of a bundle of stretched cellulose chain molecules with cellulose fibril are the smallest structural unit of plant fiber. These elementary fibrils or nanofibers are about 2–20 nm...

    Kai Zhang, Ahmed Barhoum, Chen **aoqing, Haoyi Li, Pieter Samyn in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Various Techniques to Functionalize Nanofibers

    Surface properties of a material control cell adhesion, adsorption, wettability, and colloidal stabilization. The surface functionalization of biomaterials or metals improves the biocompatibility and facilitat...

    Sakthivel Nagarajan, Sebastien Balme, S. Narayana Kalkura… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Polymer-Based Nanofibers: Preparation, Fabrication, and Applications

    Polymer-based nanofibers as an important group of materials have attracted considerable attention of research and industrial areas. Polymer nanofibers with diameters in submicrometer (<1 μm) possess unique pro...

    Masoumeh Zahmatkeshan, Moein Adel, Sajad Bahrami, Fariba Esmaeili… in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Advances in Nanofibers for Antimicrobial Drug Delivery

    Microbial infections are a major threat to public health and a leading cause of death worldwide. New strains of pathogens, such as resistant strains of viruses, bacteria, pathogenic fungi, and protozoa, are ca...

    Rahimeh Rasouli, Ahmed Barhoum in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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    Electrospun Membranes for Airborne Contaminants Capture

    This chapter presents an overview of nanofiber-based materials fabricated for applications in air filtration. Air contaminants can be classified as gaseous or particulate matter, and the capability to capture ...

    Riyadh Al-Attabi, Y. S. Morsi, Jürg A. Schütz, Ludovic F. Dumée in Handbook of Nanofibers (2019)

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