Melt Electrospinning of Polymer Fibers

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Polymers addresses recent advances linked with the melt electrospinning of polymer fibers. The development of polymeric nanofibrous materials has received increasing attention for various products in different sectors (filters in automotive, scaffolds and drug delivery carriers in medicine, sensors in the industry, etc.) in the last few decades due to the special properties provided by their structuration at the nanoscale. Various methods (gas assisting-, centrifugal-, multi-component-, and spinning methods) based on top-down or bottom-up approaches exist to produce nanofibers. Among them, electrospinning and particularly solution electrospinning, has received the most attention from researchers and industry. More recently, a solvent-free alternative to solution electrospinning, i.e., melt electrospinning, is the subject of various research projects. This Special Issue focuses on the last developments made on the different types of melt electrospinning apparatus as well as the nanofibrous materials developed for diverse applications with this spinning process. Research topics conducted through simulation and/or experimental studies, without this being limiting, may include basic research on the explanation of parameters affecting the design of nanofibers, the development of new nanofibers (surface functionalization, additives adding, polymer associations, etc.), and the study of properties obtained by these nanofibrous materials.

Dr. Francois Rault
Guest Editor

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• melt electrospinning apparatus
• application of melt electrospun materials
• physical and chemical properties of melt electrospun nanofiber mats
• design of new nanofiber by melt electrospinning (morphology modification, functionalisation, nanoadditives, etc.)
• simulation of melt electrospun processes