Preface to the Second Edition

Electrospinning is a recently emerged manufacturing technology which parallels the current drive towards multidisciplinary science, involving an exciting mix of engineering, physical chemistry, biology, and physics, to gether with science from a breadth of applications, extending from re generative medicine to energy harvesting, wound dressings to catalysts, and surgery to high-performance composites.Most of this exciting electrospin ning is associated with polymers and the infinite variety of polymers mixes well with the variation and control available through electrospinning to prepare materials and structures for diverse requirements.