TY - CHAP
T1 - Application of Biopolymeric Electrospun Nanofibers in Biological Science
AU - Shekh, Mehdihasan I.
AU - Amirian , Jhaleh
AU - Abdi, Gisya
AU - Patel, Dijit M.
AU - Du, Bing
PY - 2021/1/20
Y1 - 2021/1/20
N2 - Biopolymers are those class of macromolecules which are found in nature or extracted from the living organisms. Various structures and properties of the biopolymers-based materials are well researched till to date. These mainly includes hydrogels, bio glasses, bio inks, biocomposites, fibers and others. These biopolymers-based structures have some limitations. However, Biopolymers have some common advantages (ie, nontoxicity, easy availability, monodispersity, degradability, and better solubility etc.) and disadvantages (ie, poor thermal and chemical stabilities, brittleness etc.). To overcome these disadvantages, it is necessary to tailor these polymers by few emerging techniques like “Electrospinning”. Electrospinning is one of the easiest techniques to prepare nanofibers from polymeric solutions by applying high voltage. Obtained nano/micro structural polymeric fibers have good properties like high surface area, porosity and low weights etc. The materials having high surface area and porosity can easily interact with cells and tissues, are better mobile vehicles for drugs, as well as possess good filtration and adsorption abilities. Thus, these one-dimensional structures of the biopolymers are very useful in various fields of biomedical especially water sanitation/desalination, tissue engineering, drug delivery and scaffolds.
AB - Biopolymers are those class of macromolecules which are found in nature or extracted from the living organisms. Various structures and properties of the biopolymers-based materials are well researched till to date. These mainly includes hydrogels, bio glasses, bio inks, biocomposites, fibers and others. These biopolymers-based structures have some limitations. However, Biopolymers have some common advantages (ie, nontoxicity, easy availability, monodispersity, degradability, and better solubility etc.) and disadvantages (ie, poor thermal and chemical stabilities, brittleness etc.). To overcome these disadvantages, it is necessary to tailor these polymers by few emerging techniques like “Electrospinning”. Electrospinning is one of the easiest techniques to prepare nanofibers from polymeric solutions by applying high voltage. Obtained nano/micro structural polymeric fibers have good properties like high surface area, porosity and low weights etc. The materials having high surface area and porosity can easily interact with cells and tissues, are better mobile vehicles for drugs, as well as possess good filtration and adsorption abilities. Thus, these one-dimensional structures of the biopolymers are very useful in various fields of biomedical especially water sanitation/desalination, tissue engineering, drug delivery and scaffolds.
KW - Bioengineering
KW - Biopolymers
KW - Electrospinning
KW - Nanofibers
KW - Scaffolds
KW - Drug Delivery
UR - https://www.mrforum.com/product/nanohybrids/
U2 - 10.21741/9781644901076-7
DO - 10.21741/9781644901076-7
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-64490-106-9
VL - 87
T3 - Materials Research Foundations
SP - 156
EP - 201
BT - Nanohybrids - Future Materials For Biomedical Applications
A2 - Sharma, G.
A2 - Garcia-Penas, A.
PB - Materials Research Forum LLC
ER -