Nanofibers and Nanotextured Materials: Their Multipurpose Applications

Dear Colleagues

It is with great delight that we announce the publication of this Special Issue, Nanofibers and Nanotextured Materials: Their Multipurpose Applications, which will address the most recent technical applications of nanofibers and nanotextured materials in diverse chemical and biological fields.

Nanostructured materials offer enormous potential for the development of electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies, such as lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells, in light of the expanding worldwide need for energy and escalating environmental concerns. Moreover, nanotextured materials have incredible applications in medicine and biomedical sciences. An easy-to-use method called electrospinning practices the electrostatic attraction of opposing surface charges to constantly extract nanofibers from a viscoelastic fluid. Such nanofibers' inner or outer molecular species or nanoparticles can be further functionalized during or after an electrospinning process. In addition, the alignment, stacking, or folding of electrospun nanofibers may be altered to create ordered arrays or hierarchical structures. Nanofiber webs' characterization, the techniques for evaluating them, their market value, and their potential future uses are continuously discussed in current times.

The performance of nanofibers is often achieved by the incorporation of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, bioactive substances, nanoparticles, functional materials, or the arrangement of specific surface features. Electrospun nanofibers are ideal for a wide range of applications owing to their aforementioned characteristics. Drug delivery, air filtration, water purification, heterogeneous catalysis, environmental protection, smart textiles, surface coating, energy harvesting, conversion and storage, the encapsulation of bioactive species, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, cancer applications, fuel cells, photocatalytics, and lithium-ion batteries are some of the intriguing uses for nanofiber webs.

This Special Issue will present many potential submissions on various scientific subjects. Original research papers, review articles, and short communications are welcomed. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (around 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Nanoparticles, nanocrystals, colloids, sols, and quantum dots.
• Green chemistry synthesis of nanotextured materials and their versatile applications.
• Films, membranes, and coatings.
• Nanotubes, nanowires, nanofibers, nanorods, and nanobelts.
• Nanoporous, mesoporous, and microporous materials.
• Nanofibers and nanotextured materials for environmental remediation.
• Nanotextured materials for water purification.
• Nanotextured materials for energy harvesting, conversion, and storage.
• Nanotextured materials for catalysis applications.
• Hierarchical structures and their applications.
• Inorganic–organic hybrids or nanocomposites and their uses.
• Nanofibers and nanotextured materials for food packaging.
• Nanofibers and bioinspired materials for cell culture and tissue engineering.
• Encapsulation of bioactive compounds in nanofibers for enhanced activity.
• Nanofibers and nanotextured materials for medicine.
• Drug delivery using nanofibers and nanotextured materials.
• Polymeric, composite, and biopolymer nanofibers for biological applications.
• Nanostructured materials for cancer therapy and diagnosis.  
• Nanotextured materials for antimicrobial applications.

Dr. M. Shamshi Hassan
Dr. Touseef Amna
Guest Editors

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