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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2011, Article ID 724153, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2011/724153 Research Article Effect of Changing Solvents on Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Nanofibrous Webs Morphology A. Gholipour Kanani and S. Hajir Bahrami Textile Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to S. Hajir Bahrami, hajirb@aut.ac.ir Received 16 February 2011; Revised 6 April 2011; Accepted 6 April 2011 Academic Editor: Christian Brosseau Copyright © 2011 A. Gholipour Kanani and S. H. Bahrami. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Polycaprolactone nanofibers were prepared using five different solvents (glacial acetic acid, 90% acetic acid, methylene chloride/DMF 4/1, glacial formic acid, and formic acid/acetone 4/1) by electrospinning process. The effect of solution concentrations (5%, 10%, 15% and 20%) and applied voltages during spinning (10 KV to 20 KV) on the nanofibers formation, morphology, and structure were investigated. SEM micrographs showed successful production of PCL nanofibers with different solvents. With increasing the polymer concentration, the average diameter of nanofibers increases. In glacial acetic acid solvent, above 15% concentration bimodal web without beads was obtained. In MC/DMF beads was observed only at 5% solution concentration. However, in glacial formic acid a uniform web without beads were obtained above 10% and the nanofibers were brittle. In formic acid/acetone solution the PCL web formed showed lots of beads along with fine fibers. Inc