Polymer-free cyclodextrin and natural polymer-cyclodextrin electrospun nanofibers: A comprehensive review on current applications and future perspectives

The present review discusses the use of cyclodextrins and their derivatives to prepare electrospun nanofibers with specific features. Cyclodextrins, owing unique capability form inclusion complexes hydrophobic volatile molecules, can indeed facilitate encapsulation bioactive compounds in allowing fast-dissolving products for food, biomedical, pharmaceutical purposes, filtering materials wastewater air purification, as well a variety other technological applications. Additionally, improve processability naturally occurring biopolymers helping fabrication “green” strong industrial relevance. Hence, this provides comprehensive state-of-the-art different cyclodextrins-based including those made pure cyclodextrins, polycyclodextrins, natural biopolymer functionalized cyclodextrins. To end, advantages disadvantages such approaches possible applications are investigated along current limitations exploitation electrospinning at level.