Nonwoven materials produced by melt electrospinning of commodity polymers

Resumo

The article gives an overview of the published data on the nonwoven materials produced by melt electrospinning of commodity polymers. A historical background of the electrospinning process and its principle and technological aspects are covered. Approaches to control the average fiber diameter in the resulting materials, as well as the possibility to obtain nonwovens from mixtures of polymers, including combining the solution and melt methods, are presented.