ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERSRESEARCH: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ELECTROSPINNING FOR TISSUE ENGINEERINGAPPLICATIONS -- ABSTRACT -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Electrospinning Techniques -- 1.1. Electrospinning Overview -- 1.2. Electrospinning Production for Tissue Engineering -- 2. APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS IN BIOMEDICALAPPLICATIONS -- 2.1. Wound Dressing -- 2.2. Controlled Drug Delivery -- 3. APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS IN TISSUEENGINEERING -- 3.1. Historical and Definition -- 3.2. Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering -- 3.2.1. Bone -- 3.2.2. Cartilage -- 3.3. Skin Tissue Engineering -- 3.4. Vascular Tissue Engineering -- 3.5. Cardiac Tissue Engineering -- 3.6. Neural Tissue Engineering -- 4. CONCLUSION -- 5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 6. REFERENCES -- WORKING WITH ELECTROSPUN SCAFFOLDS: SOMEPRACTICAL HINTS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. POLYMER PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES -- 3. CONTROL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS -- 4. SCAFFOLD WETTING -- 5. SCAFFOLD STERILIZATION -- 6. SCAFFOLD SHRINKAGE -- 7. Handling of scaffolds for cell culture -- 8. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS EVALUATION OFELECTROSPUN NONWOVEN WEBS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY -- Simulation of Electrospun Web -- FIBER DIAMETER MEASUREMENT -- Manual Method -- Distance Transform -- Direct Tracking -- REAL WEBS TREATMENT -- EXPERIMENTAL -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ACHIEVEMENTS IN ELECTROSPINNING OFPOLYANILINE-POLYACRYLONITRILE BLENDNANOFIBERS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL -- Materials -- Sample Preparation -- Electrospinning -- Characterization -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- EFFECT OF PANI CONTENT -- EFFECT OF ELECTROSPINNING TEMPERATURE -- EFFECT OF APPLIED VOLTAGE -- ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

SOME PRACTICAL HINTS IN ELECTROSPINNING OFNANOFIBERS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROCESSING CONDITION -- 2.1. Applied Voltage -- 2.2. Feed Rate -- 3. THEORY AND MODELING -- 4. EFFECT OF VOLTAGE AND SPINNING DISTANCE ON MORPHOLOGYAND DIAMETER -- 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- SOME PRACTICAL HINTS TO CONTROL THEINSTABILITY AND FAILURE MODES IN ELECTROSPUNNANOFIBERS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EFFECT OF SYSTEMATIC PARAMETERS ON ELECTROSPUNNANOFIBERS AND EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS -- 2.1. Solution Properties -- 2.1.1. Viscosity -- 2.1.2. Solution Concentration -- 2.1.3. Molecular Weight -- 2.1.4. Surface Tension -- 2.1.5. Solution Conductivity -- 2.2. Processing Condition -- 2.2.1. Applied Voltage -- 2.2.2. Feed Rate -- 3. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- EVALUATION OF ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBER WEBPORE STRUCTURE : SOME PRACTICAL HINTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SIEVING METHODS -- MERCURY POROSIMETRY -- FLOW POROSIMETRY (BUBBLE POINT METHOD) -- IMAGE ANALYSIS -- REAL WEBS -- Simulated Webs: -- EXPERIMENTAL: -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CONTROL OF ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBER DIAMETERUSING DISTANCE TRANSFORM METHOD -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY -- Fiber Diameter Measurement -- Manual Method -- Distance Transform Method -- New Distance Transform Method -- VALIDATION OF THE METHODS -- THRESHOLDING -- EXPERIMENTAL -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CONTROL OF GOVERNING PARAMETERS INELECTROSPINNING PROCESS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL -- Solution Preparation and Electrospinning -- CHOICE OF PARAMETERS AND RANGE -- EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN -- RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- RESPONSE SURFACES FOR MEAN FIBER DIAMETER -- Solution Concentration -- Spinning Distance -- Applied Voltage -- Volume Flow Rate.

RESPONSE SURFACES FOR STANDARD DEVIATION OF FIBERDIAMETER -- Solution Concentration -- Spinning Distance -- Applied Voltage -- Volume Flow Rate -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- ELECTROSPUN BIODEGDADABLE ANDBIOCOMPATIBLE NATUIRAL NANOFIBERS: ADETAILED REVIEW -- ABSTRACT -- SYMBOLS -- INTRODUCTION -- ELECTROSPINNING SET UP -- EFFECT OF THE SYSTEMATIC PARAMETERS ON ELECTROSPUNNANOFIBERS -- SOLUTION PROPERTIES -- VISCOSITY -- Solution Concentration -- Molecular Mass -- Surface Tension -- Number of Entanglements -- Solution Conductivity -- Solution Conductivity -- Effect of Salt Addition -- Solvent -- PROCESSING CONDITIONS -- Applied Voltage -- Feed Rate -- Distance of Needle Tip to the Collector -- THEORY AND MODELING -- Natural fibers -- ELECTROSPINNING OF SILK FIBERSINTRODUCTION -- CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF SILK (FIBROIN) IN VARIOUS STAGES OFELECTROSPINNING -- THE Β STRUCTURE OF SILK -- SPINNING DOPE PREPARATION FOR ELECTROSPINNING -- Degumming -- Fibroin Dissolution -- ELECROSPINNING OF SILK FIBROIN -- Effect of Silk Polymer Concentration on Fiber Diameter -- Effect of Voltage and of the Spinning Distance on Morphology and Diameter -- CHARACTERIZATION -- ELECTROSPINNING OF CELLULOSE AND OF CELLULOSE ACETATE -- ELECTROSPINNING OF A CTA SOLUTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ANTIBACTERIAL ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBER -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL AND METHODS -- 2.1. Materials -- Preparation of the Spinning Solution -- 2.2. Electrospinning -- 2.4. Characterization -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ELECTROSPINNING OF HIGH CONCENTRATIONGELATIN SOLUTIONS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 2.1. Gelatin Preparation -- 2.2. Gelatin Solutions -- 2.3. Viscosity Measurements -- 2.4. Gelatin Films -- 2.5. Gelatin Electrospinning -- 2.6. Structural Characterization -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS.

3.1. Gelatin Solution Stability -- 3.2. Gelatin Nanofiber Morphology -- 3.3. Structural Characterization by FTIR, DSC and XRD -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ELECTROSPUN GELATIN NANOFIBERSFUNCTIONALIZED WITH SILVER NANOPARTICLES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 2.1. Gelatin/Agno3 Solutions -- 2.2. Electrospinning -- 2.3. Crosslinking with Glutaraldehyde -- 2.3. Structural Characterization -- 2.4. Antimicrobial Activity Characterization -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- 3.3. Structural Characterization by FTIR and XRD -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ELECTROSPINNING OF GELATIN/CHITIN COMPOSITENANOFIBERS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Chitin Depolymerisation -- 2.3. Structural Characterization -- 2.4. Electrospinning -- 3. Results and Discussions -- 3.1. Chitin Depolymerisation by Ultrasonic Treatment -- 3.2. Chitin Depolymerisation by Microwave Treatment -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- NANOTECHNOLOGY: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE INHEALTHCARE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ELECTROSPINNING -- 3. NANOFIBERS IN TISSUE ENGINEERING -- 3.1. WOUND DRESSING AND SKIN TISSUE ENGINEERING -- 3.2. BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING -- 3.3. ARTIFICIAL BLOOD VESSEL ENGINEERING -- 3.4. NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING -- 4. STEM CELLS AND NANOFIBERS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CIRCULAR AND RIBBON-LIKE SILK FIBROINNANOFIBERS BY ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENT -- 2.1. Preparation of Regenerated SF Solution -- 2.2. Preparation of the Spinning Solution -- 2.3. Electrospinning -- 3. CHARACTERIZATION -- 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4.1. Effect of Silk Concentration -- 4.2. Effect of Electric Field -- 4.3. Effect of Electrospinning Temperature -- 5. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.