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The growth step was optimized by adopting a procedure with the refresh of growing solution each hour of treatment (Method 1) and with the maintenance of a specific growth solution volume for the entire duration of the treatment (Method 2). The overall treatment time and volume of solution were also optimized by analyzing the morphology of ZnO nanostructures, the coverage degree, the thermal and mechanical stability of the obtained decorated electrospun nanofibers. In the optimal synthesis conditions (Method 2), hexagonal ZnO nanorods with a diameter and length of 53.5 nm \u00b1 5.7 nm and 375.4 nm \u00b1 37.8 nm, respectively, were obtained with a homogeneous and complete coverage of the veils. This easily scalable procedure did not damage the veils that could be potentially used as toughening elements in composites to prevent delamination onset and propagation. The presence of photoreactive species makes these materials ideal also as environmentally friendly photocatalysts for wastewater treatment. In this regard, photocatalytic tests were performed using methylene blue (MB) as model compound. Under UV light irradiation, the degradation of MB followed a first kinetic order data fitting and after 3 h of treatment a MB degradation of 91.0% \u00b1 5.1% was achieved. The reusability of decorated veils was evaluated and a decrease in photocatalysis efficiency was detected after the third cycle of use.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nano11020418","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,14]],"date-time":"2021-02-14T02:08:12Z","timestamp":1613268492000},"page":"418","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Functionalization of Commercial Electrospun Veils with Zinc Oxide Nanostructures"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2736-4915","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Irene","family":"Bavasso","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma &amp; UdR INSTM, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6287-6970","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesca","family":"Sbardella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma &amp; UdR INSTM, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3863-1188","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria Paola","family":"Bracciale","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma &amp; UdR INSTM, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6748-1174","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matteo","family":"Lilli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma &amp; UdR INSTM, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5734-7396","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jacopo","family":"Tirill\u00f2","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma &amp; UdR INSTM, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4838-7227","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luca","family":"Di Palma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma &amp; UdR INSTM, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anna Candida","family":"Felici","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Via Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5233-8589","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabrizio","family":"Sarasini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza-Universit\u00e0 di Roma &amp; UdR INSTM, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"289","DOI":"10.1016\/j.repl.2017.03.006","article-title":"Nanofiber interleaving veils for improving the performance of composite laminates","volume":"61","author":"Beckermann","year":"2017","journal-title":"Reinf. 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