ABSTRACT
Electrospinning of polymers (for example, vibration-electrospinning, magnetoelectrospinning, and bubble-electrospinning) is a simple and relatively inexpensive mean of manufacturing high volume production of very thin fibers (more typically 100 nm to 1 micron) and lengths up to kilometers from a vast variety of materials including polymers, composites, and ceramics [1, 2]. Electrospinning technology was first developed and patented by Formhals [3] in the 1930s and a few years later the actual developments were triggered by Reneker and co-workers [4]. To satisfy the increasing needs for the refined nanosize hybrid fibers based on commercial polymers, various electrospinning techniques have been investigated and developed [5]. Presently, there are two standard electrospinning setups, vertical and horizontal. With the development of this technology, several researchers have developed more intricate systems that can fabricate more complex nanofibrous structures in a more controlled and efficient style [6]. The unique properties of nanofibers are extraordi-
narily high surface area per unit mass, very high porosity, tunable pore size, tunable surface properties, layer thinness, high permeability, low basic weight, ability to retain electrostatic charges, and cost effectiveness [2]. In this method nanofibers produce by solidification of a polymer solution stretched by an electric field [7-9] which can be applied in different areas including wound dressing, drug, or gene delivery vehicles, biosensors, fuel cell membranes, and electronics, tissue engineering processes [6, 8, 10]. Electrospinning has proven to be the best nanofiber manufacturing process because of simplicity and material compatibility [11]. We give a general outlook of mathematical models for electrospinning of conducting polymers in this chapter.
