Abstract
Nanotechnology is the study and application of materials and structures between 1 and 100nm in size. This technology is mainly related to the science and engineering fields comprising of design, synthesis, modeling, imaging, characterization, and application of materials, assemblies, components, and devices at those scales. It is now highly integrated with our society and will certainly continue to be integrated with society in the next few decades because of its momentous impacts. Nanotechnology is also a broad interdisciplinary field of research, innovation, development, and industrial activities that has been expanding at a rapid rate worldwide for the last few years. In this chapter, nanotechnology, its importance, and conventional fiber-forming and nanofiber-forming techniques have been analyzed. The main focus of this book is to study the electrospinning process and applications of electrospun nanofibers in different industrial fields. Therefore, electrospinning has been discussed, in detail, not only in this chapter but in other chapters, as well. Additionally, some important features of nanomaterials, such as quantum size effect, surface and interface effects, and characteristic length scale have also been outlined in this chapter.
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