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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:43, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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editNice work expanding the nanofiber article. One thing that jumps out at me though is the lead section. The lead is supposed to succinctly summarize the main points of an article. While it's worth mentioning that both natural and synthetic polymers exist, a lengthy list of examples (like you have in the second and third sentences) shouldn't be included in the lead. Similarly, the following sentence
All polymer nanofibers are unique for their large surface area-to-volume ratio, high porosity, appreciable mechanical strength, and flexibility in functionalization compared to their microfiber counterparts
probably has too many specific points of contrast. This contrast should be be discussed in the body of the article, of course, and should be alluded to here. (As an aside, since "unique" means "singular", I don't think that you can say that "all nanofibers are unique..." unless you mean uniquely different from one-another.
Wikipedians differ as to whether sources should be included in the lead at all (since it's just a summary of what's in the body of the article) but long chains of sources like this should should not be included in the lead (and should only rarely show up in the body of the article).
Nanofibers have many possible technological and commercial applications. They are used in tissue engineering,[1][2][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] drug delivery,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] cancer diagnosis,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] lithium-air battery,[36][37][38][39][40][41] optical sensors[42][43][44][45][42][46][47] and air filtration[48][49][50]}
Wikipedia articles should have the best sources available - preferably secondary sources which summarize the state of knowledge in the field.
That said, I think you're off to a nice start. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:53, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
One more thing - I'm a bit unclear about the first sentence of Nanofiber#Thermal-induced_phase_separation
Thermal-induced phase separation separates a homogenous polymer solution into a multi-phase system via thermodynamic changes (1, 8, 9a, 9b)
I'm not sure what the "1, 8, 9a, 9b" is supposed to refer to. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 2 March 2017 (UTC)