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Electrospinning: Processes, Structures, and Materials

  • Mahboubeh Ahmadi Bonakdar and
  • Denis Rodrigue

11 February 2024

Electrospinning is a simple and affordable method of producing nanofibers, offering a large specific surface area and highly porous structures with diameters ranging from nanometers to micrometers. This process relies on an electrostatic field, provi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,678 Views
11 Pages

Electrospinning Live Cells Using Gelatin and Pullulan

  • Nasim Nosoudi,
  • Anson Jacob Oommen,
  • Savannah Stultz,
  • Micah Jordan,
  • Seba Aldabel,
  • Chandra Hohne,
  • James Mosser,
  • Bailey Archacki,
  • Alliah Turner and
  • Paul Turner

Electrospinning is a scaffold production method that utilizes electric force to draw a polymer solution into nanometer-sized fibers. By optimizing the polymer and electrospinning parameters, a scaffold is created with the desired thickness, alignment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,368 Views
15 Pages

Thermochromic Fibers via Electrospinning

  • Jimmy Nguyen,
  • Ratib M. Stwodah,
  • Christopher L. Vasey,
  • Briget E. Rabatin,
  • Benjamin Atherton,
  • Paola A. D’Angelo,
  • Kathleen W. Swana and
  • Christina Tang

6 April 2020

Cholesteryl ester liquid crystals exhibit thermochromic properties related to the existence of a twisted nematic phase. We formulate ternary mixtures of cholesteryl benzoate (CB), cholesteryl pelargonate (CP), and cholesteryl oleyl carbonate (COC) to...

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  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,949 Views
17 Pages

Melt Electrospinning Designs for Nanofiber Fabrication for Different Applications

  • Yasseen S. Ibrahim,
  • Essraa A. Hussein,
  • Moustafa M. Zagho,
  • Ghada G. Abdo and
  • Ahmed A. Elzatahry

Nanofibers have been attracting growing attention owing to their outstanding physicochemical and structural properties as well as diverse and intriguing applications. Electrospinning has been known as a simple, flexible, and multipurpose technique fo...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,417 Views
9 Pages

Optimization of the Emulsion Electrospinning for Increased Activity of Biopharmaceuticals

  • Natalia Burlaga,
  • Magdalena Bartolewska,
  • Matej Buzgo and
  • Aiva Simaite

1 December 2020

High-throughput emulsion electrospinning is a technology that can enable practical nanofiber application for drug delivery. Core-shell structure of the electrospun fibers allows the encapsulation of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), prote...

  • Review
  • Open Access
171 Citations
9,237 Views
14 Pages

Cell-Electrospinning and Its Application for Tissue Engineering

  • Jiyoung Hong,
  • Miji Yeo,
  • Gi Hoon Yang and
  • GeunHyung Kim

9 December 2019

Electrospinning has gained great interest in the field of regenerative medicine, due to its fabrication of a native extracellular matrix-mimicking environment. The micro/nanofibers generated through this process provide cell-friendly surroundings whi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,252 Views
19 Pages

Bioceramic Nanofibres by Electrospinning

  • Rajkamal Balu,
  • Sivakumar Singaravelu and
  • Naveen Nagiah

22 August 2014

Nanoscale three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds offer great promise for improved tissue integration and regeneration by their physical and chemical property enhancements. Electrospinning is a versatile bottom-up technique for producing porous 3D nanofibro...

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75 Citations
9,112 Views
29 Pages

Application of Electrospinning in Antibacterial Field

  • Honghai Li,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Weipeng Lu,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Yisheng Xu and
  • Yanchuan Guo

14 July 2021

In recent years, electrospun nanofibers have attracted extensive attention due to their large specific surface area, high porosity, and controllable shape. Among the many applications of electrospinning, electrospun nanofibers used in fields such as...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,559 Views
8 Pages

High-Throughput Electrospinning of Bioactive Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration

  • Herman Novik,
  • Marta Clerici,
  • Amir Fahmi,
  • Matej Buzgo and
  • Aiva Simaite

1 December 2020

Among the most promising technologies for sustained drug delivery systems are core-shell nanofibres prepared by electrospinning. However, the most common method for the production of those, coaxial electrospinning, suffers from extremely low flow rat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
136 Citations
14,562 Views
30 Pages

Electrospinning of Nanofibers for Energy Applications

  • Guiru Sun,
  • Liqun Sun,
  • Haiming Xie and
  • Jia Liu

With global concerns about the shortage of fossil fuels and environmental issues, the development of efficient and clean energy storage devices has been drastically accelerated. Nanofibers are used widely for energy storage devices due to their high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,191 Views
15 Pages

Electrospinning of Cyclodextrin–Oligolactide Derivatives

  • Alena Opalkova Siskova,
  • Liviu Sacarescu,
  • Andrej Opalek,
  • Jaroslav Mosnacek and
  • Cristian Peptu

19 January 2023

The materials used for the preparation of electrospun mats exhibit a large variety. Among them, cyclodextrins (CDs) and their derivatives have received thorough attention. Herein, we focus on the preparation of electrospun fibers based on biodegradab...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,766 Views
17 Pages

12 June 2024

The high production rate of fossil-based plastics, coupled with their accumulation and low degradability, is causing severe environmental problems. As a result, there is a growing interest in the use of renewable and natural sources in the polymer in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,499 Views
13 Pages

Near-Field Direct Write Electrospinning of PET-Carbon Quantum Dot Solutions

  • Fatemeh Mohtaram,
  • Michael Petersen,
  • Maria Ahrenst-Mortensen,
  • Liva Skou Boysen,
  • Frederik Hejgaard Gram,
  • Helene Halsen Malling,
  • Noah Frederik Hallundbæk Bang,
  • Yan Jurg Hess and
  • Peter Fojan

20 December 2024

Electrospinning of polymer material has gained a lot of interest in the past decades. Various methods of electrospinning have been applied for different applications, from needle electrospinning to needleless electrospinning. A relatively new variati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
177 Citations
13,463 Views
27 Pages

Overview of Electrospinning for Tissue Engineering Applications

  • Muhammad Zikri Aiman Zulkifli,
  • Darman Nordin,
  • Norazuwana Shaari and
  • Siti Kartom Kamarudin

23 May 2023

Tissue engineering (TE) is an emerging field of study that incorporates the principles of biology, medicine, and engineering for designing biological substitutes to maintain, restore, or improve tissue functions with the goal of avoiding organ transp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
111 Citations
14,414 Views
18 Pages

28 June 2012

Poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) fibers were fabricated by electrospinning. The effects of various electrospinning process parameters on the thermal properties, especially the crystallinity of the electrospun fibers were investigated. Thermal analysis of t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,532 Views
22 Pages

Application of the Electrospinning Technique in Electrochemical Biosensors: An Overview

  • Jie Liu,
  • Zhong Dong,
  • Ke Huan,
  • Zhangchu He,
  • Qixian Zhang,
  • Dongmei Deng and
  • Liqiang Luo

11 June 2024

Electrospinning is a cost-effective and flexible technology for producing nanofibers with large specific surface areas, functionalized surfaces, and stable structures. In recent years, electrospun nanofibers have attracted more and more attention in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,536 Views
21 Pages

Fibers by Electrospinning and Their Emerging Applications in Bone Tissue Engineering

  • Chuqun Yang,
  • Qi Shao,
  • Yulai Han,
  • Qingxia Liu,
  • Liang He,
  • Qian Sun and
  • Shuangchen Ruan

29 September 2021

Bone tissue engineering (BTE) is an optimized approach for bone regeneration to overcome the disadvantages of lacking donors. Biocompatibility, biodegradability, simulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), and excellent mechanical properties are essent...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,612 Views
20 Pages

Electrospinning-Based Biosensors for Health Monitoring

  • Guojing Ji,
  • Zhou Chen,
  • Hui Li,
  • Desire Emefa Awuye,
  • Mengdi Guan and
  • Yingbao Zhu

15 October 2022

In recent years, many different biosensors are being used to monitor physical health. Electrospun nanofiber materials have the advantages of high specific surface area, large porosity and simple operation. These properties play a vital role in biosen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
7,818 Views
20 Pages

Modification and Functionalization of Fibers Formed by Electrospinning: A Review

  • Gabriela B. Medeiros,
  • Felipe de A. Lima,
  • Daniela S. de Almeida,
  • Vádila G. Guerra and
  • Mônica L. Aguiar

6 September 2022

The development of new materials with specific functionalities for certain applications has been increasing with the advent of nanotechnology. A technique widely used for this purpose is electrospinning, because control of several parameters involved...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,302 Views
9 Pages

Electrospinning a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

  • Sophia Kohn,
  • Daria Wehlage,
  • Irén Juhász Junger and
  • Andrea Ehrmann

21 November 2019

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) offer new possibilities to harvest solar energy by using non-toxic inexpensive materials. Since they can generally be produced on flexible substrates, several research groups investigated possibilities to integrate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
260 Citations
15,980 Views
32 Pages

Electrospinning Nanofibers for Therapeutics Delivery

  • S. M. Shatil Shahriar,
  • Jagannath Mondal,
  • Mohammad Nazmul Hasan,
  • Vishnu Revuri,
  • Dong Yun Lee and
  • Yong-Kyu Lee

The limitations of conventional therapeutic drugs necessitate the importance of developing novel therapeutics to treat diverse diseases. Conventional drugs have poor blood circulation time and are not stable or compatible with the biological system....

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  • Open Access
122 Citations
12,130 Views
19 Pages

Electrochemical Sensors Fabricated by Electrospinning Technology: An Overview

  • Ke Chen,
  • Weimin Chou,
  • Lichao Liu,
  • Yonghui Cui,
  • Ping Xue and
  • Mingyin Jia

23 August 2019

Nanofibers or nanofibrous membranes prepared by electrospinning possess many attractive properties, including excellent mechanical properties, high specific surface area and high porosity, making them attractive for sensor application, especially for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,072 Views
17 Pages

Characterization of Polydioxanone in Near-Field Electrospinning

  • William E. King,
  • Yvonne Gillespie,
  • Keaton Gilbert and
  • Gary L. Bowlin

18 December 2019

Electrospinning is a popular method for creating random, non-woven fibrous templates for biomedical applications, and a subtype technique termed near-field electrospinning (NFES) was devised by reducing the air gap distance to millimeters. This decre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
101 Citations
15,857 Views
39 Pages

Melt Electrospinning of Polymers: Blends, Nanocomposites, Additives and Applications

  • Anna Bachs-Herrera,
  • Omid Yousefzade,
  • Luis J. del Valle and
  • Jordi Puiggali

18 February 2021

Melt electrospinning has been developed in the last decade as an eco-friendly and solvent-free process to fill the gap between the advantages of solution electrospinning and the need of a cost-effective technique for industrial applications. Although...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,300 Views
8 Pages

Arced Multi-Nozzle Electrospinning Spinneret for High-Throughput Production of Nanofibers

  • Jiaxin Jiang,
  • Gaofeng Zheng,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Wenwang Li,
  • Guoyi Kang,
  • Huatan Chen,
  • Shumin Guo and
  • Juan Liu

24 December 2019

The stable and continuous ejection of multiple jets with high densities is the key to the application of electrospinning technology. An arced multi-nozzle spinneret was designed to increase the production efficiency of electrospinning. The distributi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
145 Citations
11,777 Views
20 Pages

A Mini-Review: Needleless Electrospinning of Nanofibers for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications

  • Ioannis Partheniadis,
  • Ioannis Nikolakakis,
  • Ivo Laidmäe and
  • Jyrki Heinämäki

6 June 2020

Electrospinning (ES) is a convenient and versatile method for the fabrication of nanofibers and has been utilized in many fields including pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. Conventional ES uses a needle spinneret for the generation of nanof...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,195 Views
19 Pages

Evolution of Electrospinning in Liver Tissue Engineering

  • Ashwini Vasudevan,
  • Dinesh M. Tripathi,
  • Subramanian Sundarrajan,
  • Jayarama Reddy Venugopal,
  • Seeram Ramakrishna and
  • Savneet Kaur

30 September 2022

The major goal of liver tissue engineering is to reproduce the phenotype and functions of liver cells, especially primary hepatocytes ex vivo. Several strategies have been explored in the recent past for culturing the liver cells in the most apt envi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,451 Views
26 Pages

Electrospinning and Electrospraying: Emerging Techniques for Probiotic Stabilization and Application

  • Kun Feng,
  • Lulu Huangfu,
  • Chuanduo Liu,
  • Laura Bonfili,
  • Qisen Xiang,
  • Hong Wu and
  • Yanhong Bai

22 May 2023

Probiotics are beneficial for human health. However, they are vulnerable to adverse effects during processing, storage, and passage through the gastrointestinal tract, thus reducing their viability. The exploration of strategies for probiotic stabili...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,812 Views
24 Pages

Electrospinning Nanoparticles-Based Materials Interfaces for Sensor Applications

  • Shan Zhang,
  • Zhenxin Jia,
  • Tianjiao Liu,
  • Gang Wei and
  • Zhiqiang Su

14 September 2019

Electrospinning is a facile technique to fabricate nanofibrous materials with adjustable structure, property, and functions. Electrospun materials have exhibited wide applications in the fields of materials science, biomedicine, tissue engineering, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,975 Views
8 Pages

State Recognition of Multi-Nozzle Electrospinning Based on Image Processing

  • Weiqi Gao,
  • Jiaxin Jiang,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Wenwang Li and
  • Gaofeng Zheng

24 February 2023

The online monitoring of a multi-jet electrospinning process is critical to the achievement of stable mass electrospinning for industrial applications. In this study, the construction of an ejection state recognition system of a multi-jet electrospin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,846 Views
12 Pages

28 May 2024

This work deals with designing the optimal shape of the spinning electrode to optimize the distribution of the electric field and suppress the formation of corona discharges on the surface of the electrode during electrospinning using direct current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,545 Views
26 Pages

This paper summarizes the design and construction of an adaptable electrospinner capable of spinning fluids over a large range of viscosities. The design accommodates needless electrospinning technologies and enables researchers to explore a large ra...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,359 Views
11 Pages

New Polymers for Needleless Electrospinning from Low-Toxic Solvents

  • Martin Wortmann,
  • Natalie Frese,
  • Lilia Sabantina,
  • Richard Petkau,
  • Franziska Kinzel,
  • Armin Gölzhäuser,
  • Elmar Moritzer,
  • Bruno Hüsgen and
  • Andrea Ehrmann

2 January 2019

Electrospinning is a new technology whose scope is gradually being developed. For this reason, the number of known polymer–solvent combinations for electrospinning is still very low despite the enormous variety of substances that are potentiall...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,263 Views
29 Pages

14 June 2022

Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are the most basic structure of one-dimensional nanometer-scale sp2 carbon. The CNF’s structure provides fast current transfer and a large surface area and it is widely used as an energy storage material and as a sensor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,528 Views
26 Pages

Recent Progress in the Application of Electrospinning Technology in the Biomedical Field

  • Qun Wang,
  • Peng Ji,
  • Tian Bu,
  • Yating Mao,
  • Hailun He and
  • Naijing Ge

Electrospinning has emerged as a highly effective technique for fabricating micro- and nanofibers, which are characterized by high porosity, large surface area, and structural mimicry of the extracellular matrix (ECM). These properties render it part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,105 Views
20 Pages

Electrospinning of Hyaluronan Using Polymer Coelectrospinning and Intermediate Solvent

  • Lenka Vítková,
  • Lenka Musilová,
  • Eva Achbergerová,
  • Antonín Minařík,
  • Petr Smolka,
  • Erik Wrzecionko and
  • Aleš Mráček

18 September 2019

In the current study, we present methods of sodium hyaluronate, also denoted as hyaluronan (HA), nanofiber fabrication using a direct-current (DC) electric field. HA was spun in combination with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and polyethylene oxide (PEO)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,952 Views
37 Pages

30 October 2023

Nanofibers have gained much attention because of the large surface area they can provide. Thus, many fabrication methods that produce nanofiber materials have been proposed. Electrospinning is a spinning technique that can use an electric field to co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
4,794 Views
11 Pages

Scaled-Up Multi-Needle Electrospinning Process Using Parallel Plate Auxiliary Electrodes

  • Étienne J. Beaudoin,
  • Maurício M. Kubaski,
  • Mazen Samara,
  • Ricardo J. Zednik and
  • Nicole R. Demarquette

15 April 2022

Electrospinning has gained much attention in recent years due to its ability to easily produce high-quality polymeric nanofibers. However, electrospinning suffers from limited production capacity and a method to readily scale up this process is neede...

  • Review
  • Open Access
291 Citations
18,007 Views
26 Pages

Electrospinning of Chitosan-Based Solutions for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

  • Saad B. Qasim,
  • Muhammad S. Zafar,
  • Shariq Najeeb,
  • Zohaib Khurshid,
  • Altaf H. Shah,
  • Shehriar Husain and
  • Ihtesham Ur Rehman

Electrospinning has been used for decades to generate nano-fibres via an electrically charged jet of polymer solution. This process is established on a spinning technique, using electrostatic forces to produce fine fibres from polymer solutions. Amon...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
13,406 Views
36 Pages

Electrospinning of Chitosan for Antibacterial Applications—Current Trends

  • Eliconda Antaby,
  • Kristina Klinkhammer and
  • Lilia Sabantina

15 December 2021

Chitosan is a natural biopolymer that can be suitable for a wide range of applications due to its biocompatibility, rigid structure, and biodegradability. Moreover, it has been proven to have an antibacterial effect against several bacteria strains b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,110 Views
31 Pages

A Molecular-Level Picture of Electrospinning

  • Jan Jirsák,
  • Pavel Pokorný,
  • Pavel Holec and
  • Šárka Dědičová

15 September 2020

Electrospinning is a modern and versatile method of producing nanofibers from polymer solutions or melts by the action of strong electric fields. The complex, multiscale nature of the process hinders its theoretical understanding, especially at the m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,655 Views
20 Pages

Electrospinning for Biomedical Applications: An Overview of Material Fabrication Techniques

  • Anastasiia D. Tsareva,
  • Valeriia S. Shtol,
  • Dmitriy V. Klinov and
  • Dimitri A. Ivanov

This review examines recent methodologies for fabricating nonwoven polymer materials through electrospinning, focusing on the underlying physical principles, including the effects of external parameters, experimental conditions, material selection, a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,418 Views
15 Pages

22 October 2020

Electrospinning is a versatile fibre fabrication method with applications from textile to tissue engineering. Despite the appearance that the influencing parameters of electrospinning are fully understood, the effect of setup orientation has not been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,637 Views
12 Pages

28 July 2021

Recently, the electrospun silk web has been intensively studied in terms of its biomedical applications, including tissue engineering scaffolds, due to its good biocompatibility, cytocompatibility, and biodegradability. In this study, the effect of r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,060 Views
17 Pages

Research on Electric Field Homogenization in Radial Multi-Nozzle Electrospinning

  • Jian Liu,
  • Shoujun Dong,
  • Chenghao Wang,
  • Yanbo Liu,
  • Shanshan Pan and
  • Zhaosong Yin

14 July 2024

Electrospinning is an effective method to prepare nanofibers at present. Aiming at problems such as low spinnable viscosity and the low productivity of the traditional multi-needle, a radial nozzle was proposed in this paper. In order to solve the pr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,583 Views
35 Pages

Production of Nanofibers by Electrospinning as Carriers of Agrochemical

  • Julia Colín-Orozco,
  • Elena Colín-Orozco and
  • Ricardo Valdivia-Barrientos

5 August 2024

Agrochemicals can now be protected from harsh environments like pH, light, temperature, and more with the help of a drug-loading system. This has allowed the creation of targeted and continuous release functions for pesticides and fertilizers, as wel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
4,814 Views
32 Pages

Recent Combinations of Electrospinning with Photocatalytic Technology for Treating Polluted Water

  • He Lv,
  • Yanan Liu,
  • Yubin Bai,
  • Hongpu Shi,
  • Wen Zhou,
  • Yaoning Chen,
  • Yang Liu and
  • Deng-Guang Yu

15 April 2023

Dyes, antibiotics, heavy metal ions, and bacteria are important sources of water pollution. How to solve these issues has become a problem in the fields of science and technology. People have developed a variety of technologies to treat pollutants in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,533 Views
30 Pages

4 November 2024

The preparation of core–sheath fibers by electrospinning is a topic of significant interest for producing composite fibers with distinct core and sheath functionalities. Moreover, in core–sheath fibers, low-molecular-weight substances or...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,853 Views
29 Pages

Biodegradable Polymer Electrospinning for Tendon Repairment

  • Yiming Zhang,
  • Yueguang Xue,
  • Yan Ren,
  • Xin Li and
  • Ying Liu

21 March 2023

With the degradation after aging and the destruction of high-intensity exercise, the frequency of tendon injury is also increasing, which will lead to serious pain and disability. Due to the structural specificity of the tendon tissue, the traditiona...

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