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Item Electrospinning: From Fundamentals to Applications(CRC Press, 2016) Senthil, T.; George, G.; Srinivasan, A.Electrospinning is not only a unique and fascinating process for the production of polymeric nanobers with diameters ranging from 3 nm to 20 µm, but also the simplest and inexpensive technique to fabricate ultrane continuous polymeric bers. Electrospinning is also known as electrostatic spinning and electrospraying. In the last few years, electrospinning has become popular among academic researchers and industries as it overcomes the various processing diculties in the other nanober-forming techniques. Some of the other techniques for the production of polymer nanobers are drawing, template synthesis, phase separation, and self-assembly (Table 5.1). While electrospinning can produce nanobers, its conventional counterparts, such as melt spinning, dry spinning, gel spinning, and wet spinning, can only produce microbers (Figure 5.2) (Gibson et al. 2001). Almost all the straight chain homopolymeric materials have been actively investigated for developing nanobers by electrospinning. Meanwhile, various FIGURE 5.1 Electrospun nanobers have high surface area. (Reprinted from Colloids Surf., A, 187-188, Gibson, P., Gibson, H.S., and Rivin, D., Transport Properties of Porous Membranes Based on Electrospun Nanobers, 469-481. Copyright 2001, with permission from Elsevier.) semicrystalline and amorphous polymers, natural and synthetic biopolymers, polymer blends, and block copolymers can also be converted into nanobers via the electrospinning technique. © 2017 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.Item Sol-gel electrospinning of diverse ceramic nanofibers and their potential applications(Elsevier, 2020) George, G.; Senthil, T.; Luo, Z.; Anandhan, S.Ceramics are composed of both metallic and nonmetallic elements and commonly exist as compounds of oxides, nitrides, and carbides. Two decades back, the use of ceramics was limited to a handful of applications, as in household utilities and some industrial uses. In the era of nanotechnology, the definition and application of materials are altered, especially in the case of ceramics. By the development of various fabrication techniques of nanostructured ceramics, the scope of ceramic materials is radically transformed, making them the most beneficial among the materials ever designed for several critical applications. The fabrication of ceramic nanostructures is challenging from an industrial point of view since many fabrication techniques need sophisticated instrumentation, skilled personnel, purity of chemicals, specificity of the medium, controlled atmosphere, etc. and are anticipated for lab-scale production. The electrospinning process is an exception, which can address all the former problems associated with other fabrication techniques. This chapter covers the electrospun ceramic nanofibers such as oxides, carbides, nitrides, sulfides, etc. from various precursors and their application in the field of biomedical engineering, filtration, energy, electronics, sensor, catalysis, etc. and their peculiar properties, such as photoluminescence, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, and magnetic. Nevertheless, the application of ceramic nanofibers, far more than what is discussed here, and advanced studies are essential to explore the applications of ceramic nanofibers in numerous untouched areas where conventional materials can be replaced. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.