Materials and Electro-mechanical and Biomedical Devices Based on Nanofibers

The book is interwoven according to the intrinsic logics of modern most important applications of electrospun nanofibers. It discusses such application-oriented nanofibers as self-healing vascular nanotextured materials, biopolymer nanofibers, soft robots and actuators based on nanofibers, biopolymer nanofiber-based triboelectric nanogenerators, metallized nanofibers, and heaters and sensors based on them. It also includes such topics as the injectable nanofibrous biomaterials, fibrous hemostatic agents and their interaction with blood, as well as electrospun nanofibers for face-mask applications. The book also details polyelectrolytes-based complex nanofibers and their use as actuators. It also covers drug release facilitated by polyelectrolytes-based complex nanofibers. The fundamental aspects of electrospinning of polymer nanofibers discussed in the final part of the book link them to the applications described in the preceding chapters. Such topics as polymer solution preparation and their rheological properties, e.g., viscoelasticity and the related spinnability, the electrical conductivity of polymer solutions, and the cascade of the physical phenomena resulting in formation of nanofibers encompass the experimental aspects. Also, the general quasi-1D equations used for modeling of formation of electrospun polymer nanofibers, and the numerical aspects of their solution are discussed in detail, including such modeling-driven applications as nanofiber alignment by electric focusing fields. 

Alexander L. Yarin received his M.Sc. (Applied Physics) in 1977, Ph.D. (Physics and Mathematics) in 1980, and DSc (Habilitation in Physics and Mathematics) in 1989. He holds the following positions: Junior & Senior Research Associate at The Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow (1977-1990) and concurrently Professor at the Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics of The Physico-Technical Institute (1985-1989) and The Aviation Technology Institute, Moscow, USSR (1988-1990); Professor at The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1990-2006; Eduard Pestel Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering at The Technion in 1999-2006); Professor at The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (2006-present; Distinguished Professor in 2014-present); Fellow of the Center for Smart Interfaces at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2008-2012); Visiting Professor at Korea University (Seoul, S. Korea, 2013-present). Dr. Yarin was a VisitingProfessor on sabbatical at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Chem. Eng. Dept.) in 1996-1997, and at The University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003-2004. Prof. Yarin is the author of 4 books, 12 book chapters, 324 research papers in leading peer-reviewed journal, 60 conference papers, 7 miscellaneous publications and 8 patents. Two of his books were recently published: A.L. Yarin, B. Pourdeyhimi, S. Ramakrishna. Fundamentals and Applications of Micro- and Nanofibers. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014; A.L. Yarin, I.V. Roisman, C. Tropea. Collision Phenomena in Liquids and Solids. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017. He is the author of the reviews: A.L. Yarin, "Drop Impact Dynamics: Splashing, Spreading, Receding, Bouncing..." in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 38, 159-192 (2006); A.L. Yarin. Coaxial electrospinning and emulsion electrospinning of core-shell fibers. Polymers Advanced Technologies 22, 310-317 (2011), and co-authors of the following review articles, M.W. Lee, S. An, S.S. Yoon, A.L. Yarin. Advances in self-healing materials based on vascular networks with mechanical self-repair characteristics. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (in press 2018); X. Wu, A.L. Yarin. Recent progress in interfacial toughening and damage self-healing of polymer composites based on electrospun and solution-blown nanofibers: An overview. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 129, 2225-2237 (2013); A. Greiner, J.H.Wendorff, A.L. Yarin, E. Zussman,"Biohybrid nanosystems with polymer nanofibers and nanotubes". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 71, N 4, 387-393 (2006); D.H. Reneker, A.L. Yarin, E. Zussman, H. Xu, Electrospinning of nanofibers from polymer solutions and melts. Advances in Applied Mechanics 41, 43-195 (2007); A.L. Yarin, E. Zussman, J.H. Wendorff, A. Greiner. Material encapsulation in core-shell micro/nanofibers, polymer and carbon nanotubes and micro/nanochannels. J. Mater. Chem. 17, 2585-2599 (2007); D.H. Reneker, A.L. Yarin. Electrospinning jets and polymer nanofibers. Polymer, v. 49, 2387-2425 (2008); Y. Zhang, S. Sinha-Ray, A.L. Yarin. Mechanoresponsive polymer nanoparticles, nanofibers and coatings as drug carriers and components of microfluidic devices. J. Mater. Chem. 21, 8269-8281 (2011). Dr. Yarin is an author of two chapters in Handbook of Atomization and Sprays: Theory and Applications, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (2011). Dr. Yarin is one of the three co-Editors of "Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics", 2007, and the Associate Editor of the journal "Experiments in Fluids" published by Springer. Dr. Yarin worked on nano-textured self-healing materials, electrospinning, solution blowing, drop impacts and collision phenomena, generally in the field of materials science, applied physics, fluid and solid mechanics. He is also the Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and of the journal "Archives of Mechanics", as well as the Member ofthe Edit