PVP-crosslinked electrospun membranes with embedded Pd and Cu₂O nanoparticles as effective heterogeneous catalytic supports

Magnetoactive electrospun nanofibers in tissue engineering applications

“…These outstanding properties render electrospun polymer-based fibrous materials promising candidates for many applications, not only in the biomedical field, such as scaffolds in tissue engineering and drug delivery systems [38,[68][69][70], but also in environmental applications including filtration and water remediation processes [71] and in catalysis [72] (Figure 2). Since the major challenges in the field of nanofibres is their utility as biomaterials and specifically in tissue engineering applications, many researchers have exploited the recent advances of this technology for producing a wide range of nanofibrous polymeric materials, both natural and synthetic, that have been used as scaffolds in tissue engineering [68].…”

“…These materials comprise two or more phases of different chemical constituents or structures, with at least one phase having nanometric dimensions [91]. The combination of functional inorganic / organic fillers at the nanometer scale with polymer-based fibres produced by electrospinning leads to novel and attractive nanocomposite systems which exhibit promising features for many applications including biomedicine [68,92,93], catalysis [72,94], in environmental [95], and in energy-related applications [27,91]. The combination of the properties of the different components and the enhanced materials' properties derived from the development of organic-inorganic interfacial interaction phenomena has led to an improved performance compared to pristine polymer fibres [26,35,91,96].…”

Effect of Calcination Temperature on NO–CO Decomposition by Pd Catalyst Nanoparticles Supported on Alumina Nanofibers

“…A number of materials are used as the monolithic catalyst supports [21][22][23][24]. Recent attention has turned to the use of submicron fibers as catalyst support due to their high surface area, flexibility, and flow-through pore structures that make it easy for the reactants to reach the catalyst particles [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. For high temperature applications, alumina is relatively inert and stable at elevated temperatures making it a commonly used support material [35].…”

Fabrication and study of UV-shielding and photocatalytic performance of uniform TiO2/SiO2 core-shell nanofibers via single-nozzle co-electrospinning and interface sol–gel reaction

“…The e ect of the incorporated polymers is that, in addition to having a high transparency throughout the visible range, they can strongly absorb the deep-ultraviolet (DUV) wavelengths less than 300 nm [11].…”