Fundamentals and Applications of Micro- and Nanofibers
Fundamentals and Applications of Micro- and Nanofibers
Behnam Pourdeyhimi, North Carolina State University
Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore
A comprehensive exposition of micro and nanofiber forming, this text provides a unified framework of all these processes (melt and solution blowing, electrospinning, and so on) and describes their foundations, development and applications. It provides an up-to-date, in-depth physical and mathematical treatment, and discusses a wide variety of applications in different fields, including nonwovens, energy, healthcare and the military. It further highlights the challenges and outstanding issues from an interdisciplinary perspective of science and technology, incorporating both fundamentals and applications. Ideal for researchers, engineers and graduate students interested in the formation of micro and nanofibers and their use in functional smart materials.
- Provides a comprehensive theoretical background of the physical, engineering and applied physical and mathematical foundations of the micro and nanofiber forming processes
- Puts nanofiber forming processes in a broader context of rheologically complex fluids, electrohydrodynamics, hydro and aerodynamics, as well as material science and technology
- Covers several practically important processes (such as melt and solution blowing, electrospinning, and so on) and discusses them from their physical origins to the industrial process development
Reviews & endorsements
'Many new, imaginative and important technological and biomaterial applications of fibers are being built upon information presented in this comprehensive, authoritative and enabling book.' Darrell H. Reneker, University of Akron, Ohio
Product details
No date availableHardback
9781107060296
453 pages
252 × 183 × 23 mm
1.04kg
274 b/w illus. 19 tables
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Polymer physics and rheology
- 3. General quasi-one-dimensional equations of dynamics of free liquid jets. Capillary and bending instability
- 4. Melt and solution blowing
- 5. Electrospinning of micro and nanofibers
- 6. Additional methods and materials used to form micro and nanofibers
- 7. Tensile properties of micro and nanofibers
- 8. Post-processing
- 9. Applications of micro and nanofibers
- 10. Military applications of micro and nanofibers
- 11. Applications of micro and nanofibers and micro and nanoparticles: healthcare, nutrition, drug delivery and personal care.
