ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates various fabrication techniques used for nanofibres. Electrospinning or electrostatic spinning is the most common method used to fabricate nanofibres. The work was based on a combination of normally aligned magnetic and electric fields acting on a two-layer system, where the lower layer was a ferromagnetic suspension and the upper layer was a polymeric solution. Nanofibres of both thermoplastic and thermosetting resins can be produced by electroblowing. The difficulty in fabricating nanofibres in melt blowing is due to the inability to design sufficiently small orifice in the die and the high viscosity of the polymeric melt. Bi-component spinning can be used for the fabrication of smaller nanofibres by sacrificing one of the polymer components as well as to create multicomponent nanofibres. In self-assembly, the shape and properties of nanofibres depend on the molecules and the intermolecular forces that bring the molecules together.
