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One-dimensional (1D) ceramic nanostructures, such as nanofibers, nanotubes, nanorods, nanowires, nanorings, nanobelts, and nanowhiskers, have been a very exciting and promising research topic in the last decades. This interest has been aroused by their unique properties and a wide variety of potential applications in future nanoelectronics and functional nanodevices, such as optoelectronics, photonics, cosmetics, health, bioengineering, gas and humidity sensors, mechanics, and catalysis (Xia et al., 2003; Wang, 2004; Carotta et al., 2007; Kumar & Ramaprabhu, 2007; Luo et al., 2007). A large number of techniques are available to prepare these materials, including vapour-phase method (Pan et al., 2001; Zhang et al., 2002), vapour–liquid–solid method (Morales & Lieber, 1998; Duan & Lieber, 2000), solution–liquid–solid method (Trentler et al., 1995; Markowitz et al., 2001), template-assisted method (Martin, 1994; Han et al., 1997; Zach et al., 2000; Barbic et al., 2002), solvothermal method (Heath & LeGoues, 1993; Wang & Li, 2002), arc discharge (Iijima, 1991), pulsed laser ablation (Sasaki et al., 2004), and precursor thermal decomposition (Wang et al., 2002a). Nevertheless, developing simpler and versatile approaches to the synthesis of one-dimensional ceramic nanostructures still remains a challenge. Among various approaches, electrostatic spinning (electrospinning) seems to be the simplest and most versatile technique capable of fabricating one-dimensional nanostructures including polymer, ceramic and composite nanofibers (Huang et al., 2003, Shao et al., 2003, Ksapabutr et al., 2005a ; Ksapabutr et al., 2005b; Li et al., 2006; Sigmund et al., 2006; Panapoy et al., 2008a; Panapoy et al., 2008b). Like a number of conventional spinning processes, electrospinning involves the ejection of a viscous solution (or melt) from an orifice and the subsequent drawing and solidification of the jet to form thin fibers. Unlike the conventional spinning processes, the exclusive driving force for the formation of ultrafine fiber in the electrospinning process is the electrostatic interaction. The fundamental principle of electrospinning is that a Taylor cone is formed by applying an electrical field to the viscous solution or melt hanging from a capillary tip, which causes jets of an electrically charged solution to be emitted when the applied electrostatic force exceeds the surface tension of the solution. A liquid jet shoots away from the capillary tip towards an oppositely charged electrode and solidifies with evaporation of solvent to form a mat on the grounded

Fabrication of Ceramic Nanofibers Using Atrane Precursor