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This chapter presents an overview of nanofiber-based materials fabricated for applications in air filtration. Air contaminants can be classified as gaseous or particulate matter, and the capability to capture these will strongly vary with the specifics of their chemistry, morphology, and agglomeration kinetics, as well as with atmospheric conditions, such as humidity and temperature. The capture mechanisms of different design methods must therefore be adapted to achieve stringent capture efficiency targets. For one, the benefits of nanofibers over more conventional microfibers reside in the small fiber diameter facilitating more tuneable and finer pore sizes, narrower pore size distributions, and higher specific surface areas. The advantages of nanofiber media for filtration applications, such as extreme compactness, are highlighted in the chapter concerned with the specific properties of nanofiber filters. The challenges arising from the use of nanofibers that is contrasted by opportunities that may direct future trends of nanofiber filters for air filtration applications are discussed at the end of the chapter.
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Al-Attabi, R., Morsi, Y.S., Schütz, J.A., Dumée, L.F. (2018). Electrospun Membranes for Airborne Contaminants Capture. In: Barhoum, A., Bechelany, M., Makhlouf, A. (eds) Handbook of Nanofibers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42789-8_37-1
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