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Relationships between specific surface area and pore size in electrospun polymer fibre networks

This work underpins research by at least eight independent groups into the use of electrospun nanofibrous networks for membranes, tissue engineering scaffolds and high toughness composite materials. The proposed theory advances upon previous work published in the same journal (J Roy Soc Interface 2 (2005) 309-318 - this paper won a prize from the Royal Society). It shows that not only the control of fibre diameter (which was the subject of the previous paper), but also the geometry is important for the control of porosity and potential fracture toughness and bonding in composites and tissue engineered scaffolds.