**Meet the editor**

Russ Maguire is a founder and President at Global Nanocomposites, LLC. He was a Boeing Fellow in the Research & Technology (BR&T) organization specializing in composite materials. He was a leader in BR&T for external technology collaborations in new M&P, and responsible for new technology discovery, evaluation, acquisition and implementation to meet next generation

commercial aircraft goals and requirements; specifically on developing collaborations in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Canada, China and Italy. He was a BR&T nanotechnology focal and member of the Boeing Advanced Concept Center. Russ has been an invited keynote/plenary speaker at international composite conferences in US, Europe and Asia, and was a member of the Nanotechnology/Aerospace Industry Liaison group to the White House. He has been an invited reviewer for AFWAL and NASA ACEE composites, an advisory member of the Princeton TRI, and invited to the Gordon Conference on Composites.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Electrospun Nanofiber Based Solid Phase Extraction 1**

**Electrochemical Sensing Applications 35**

Chapter 3 **Chitin Nanofibers, Preparations and Applications 85**

Chapter 5 **Carbon Nanofiber Concrete for Damage Detection of**

Chapter 6 **Materials and Processes for Ion Permeable Separating Membranes by Electro-Spinning 145**

A. Alubaidy, K. Venkatakrishnan and B. Tan

Rocío del A. Cardona and Jorge J. Santiago-Avilés

Chapter 8 **Use of Self-Assembly Nanofibre Biomaterials for Neural Repair**

Mingyong Gao, Jiasong Guo, Gilberto K. K. Leung and Wutian Wu

Y.L. Mo and Rachel Howser Roberts

Chapter 7 **Nanofibers Reinforced Polymer Composite**

**Microstructures 165**

**After Injury 185**

Chapter 2 **Electrospun Nanofibers: From Rational Design, Fabrication to**

Shinsuke Ifuku, Zameer Shervani and Hiroyuki Saimoto

Chapter 4 **Fabrication of Nanofibrous Scaffolds by Electrospinning 103**

Samuel Chigome and Nelson Torto

Jianshe Huang and Tianyan You

Kai Wei and Ick-Soo Kim

**Infrastructure 125**
