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Revolutionizing Nutraceuticals: Electrospraying for Enhanced Bioavailability

Electrospraying is transforming the nutraceutical industry by improving the bioavailability of active ingredients. This technique produces nano/micro particles with enhanced stability, controlled release, and increased absorption. It also addresses challenges like poor solubility and ingredient degradation. Electrospraying offers scalability, versatility, and eco-friendly production, making it a promising solution for next-generation nutraceuticals.

Breathable Waterproof Fabrics

In today’s fitness-focused culture, there’s a growing demand for advanced wearables and clothing. Brands like Gore-Tex®, The North Face®, and Sympatex® are at the forefront, offering breathable waterproof fabrics for intense physical activities. This trend is mirrored on social media, reflecting a widespread interest in fitness content across age groups. These fabrics go beyond sports, finding uses in various professional sectors and even in medical applications. As fabric industries respond with lightweight, breathable, and waterproof solutions, the possibilities for this technology are vast.

Emulsion Electrospinning

Emulsion electrospinning combines the principles of emulsification with electrospinning to create ultrafine fibers with applications in biomedical, filtration, and energy fields. Key parameters and applications include drug delivery and food packaging. Challenges include low throughput and material compatibility, which can be addressed with core-shell structures and crosslinking

Electrospun Nanofiber Based Structures for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding

Electromagnetic shielding is crucial in our wireless world to protect electronic devices from interference. Electrospun nanofibers, created using electrospinning, offer a unique solution. They can be made from conductive materials and tailored for specific applications, such as shielding medical equipment or enhancing antenna performance. A recent study even drew inspiration from butterfly wings to create thin, flexible, and transparent radiation-shielding paper. These versatile nanofibers are revolutionizing EMI protection across industries.

A  Novel Approach To Up-Scaled Open-Surface Electrospinning

Nanofibers can be prepared with several laboratory techniques however electrospinning remains the most prevalent and versatile method. As of recent, one of the main challenges for electrospinning is designing a setup that can efficiently upscale the production capacity of nanofiber membrane media. Generally there are two kinds of electrospinning variants, needle-based and needle-less. Both approaches have been further developed to maximize the nanofiber throughput and both can have comparable differences. We explore these differences by electrospinning five diverse polymers (PVA, PVDF, TPU, PA 6, and PHB) in both needle-based (nozzle) and needle-less (open-surface) apparatuses. More details can be found in this article:

Nanofiber filtration media as an efficient biodegradable alternative

With the advent of the COVID-19 crisis, the utilization of personal protective equipment (PPE) sky-rocketed. PPE can refer to type of attire worn for protection against different kinds of safety hazards. In the COVID-19 case, the PPE are masks and gloves meant to shield end-users from the novel corona-virus. As the infection rates grew rapidly so did the frequency of mask usage. This resulted in the accumulation of disposable masks as waste adding to pollution. This environmental pollution increased to such an extent that masks are now being found in the ocean, negatively effecting marine life. More details can be found in this article:

Air Filters with Nanofiber Technology

The goal of filters is to act as a sieve, to maintain or purify the quality of a medium. An air filter’s purpose is to purify or clean the medium that is air, by filtering out the unwanted pollutants present in the atmosphere. Air filters can be physically described as membranes that have a functional layer that can trap contaminating particles that were present in the air stream and prevent them from continuing. This functional layer can either be an electrostatic precipitator or nanofiber mesh

Energy Applications Of Nanofibers For Li-Batteries

The incentive of energy and nanofiber related research has increased in recent years due to the advancing progress of electrospinning and the possibility of fabricating environmentally friendly energy products. Due to their high surface area, strong crystalline structure, and high kinetic property, nanofibers are commonly used in energy applications. As in many other application areas, nanofibers have the potential to enhance the properties of several energy products, such as super-capacitors, li-batteries, nanogenerators, fuel cells, solar cells etc.

ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS AS SCAFFOLDS FOR MANUFACTURING CULTURED MEAT

Cultured meat (CM), also known as in vitro meat, artificial meat, cultivated meat, cell-based meat, lab-grown meat, clean meat, or synthetic meat, is generally produced by culturing cells in vitro instead of animal-derived tissue harvesting. Artificial meat can effectively minimize the consumption ratio of energy, and water as well as greenhouse gas emissions, disease transmission, and the number of animals slaughtered to satisfy the demand for meat. ​Furthermore, less intimate human-animal encounters will significantly reduce the emergence and incidence of epidemic zoonoses.

Flame Retardant Nanofibers