ABSTRACT
Over the past several years, nanotechnology based on polymers has attracted a lot of interest because objects of size in the range of 1–100 nm often exhibit unique physical and chemical properties (Gao and Xu 2012). Nanotechnology has been regarded as the next great new frontier of materials science and is one of the enabling technologies of the twenty-first century. The commercial importance of polymers has been increasing in various fields, such as aerospace, automotive, marine, infrastructure, military, consumer commodities, electronics, and information. Nanostructuring is regarded as a new method to mend many properties, which include improved strength, enhanced modulus, decreased thermal expansion coefficient, increased thermal stability, outstanding barrier properties, improved solvent and heat resistance, decreased flammability, and reduced gas permeability compared with the conventional microfabrication methods. Electrospinning is one of the nanofabrication processes that have found a plethora of applications in various fields.
