“…Also, nanofibers have small interfibrous pore sizes, strong penetrability and interaction with other compounds [6]. These characteristics suit the nanofibrous materials particularly well to be used as membranes or sorbents in a wide range of applications across biomedical and environmental areas, such as submicro particles separation [7], protein purification [8], air cleaning [9] and heavy metal ions [10] and dye removal [11,12], extraction of pesticides [13] and environmental pollutants [14,15], although their full potential in environmental applications has not been comprehensively explored. Since the entrapment of the target molecules by the nanostructured materials is facilitated due to its enhanced surface area, a small amount of nanofibers is expected to be sufficient for the extraction; therefore, the volume of desorption solvent is greatly reduced [16].…”