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A series of blend nanofiber mats comprising poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and polyurethane (PU) were prepared by dual-jet electrospinning in various parameters. Orthogonal experimental design was used to investigate how those parameters affected on fiber diameters and fiber diameter distribution. Altogether three parameters having three levels each were chosen for this study. The chosen parameters were tip-to-collector distance (TCD), voltage and tip-to-tip distance (TTD). Fiber diameters, thermal properties, mechanical properties and hydrophilicity of the blend nanofiber mats were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), tensile test, contact angle and water absorption test, respectively. The results showed that the optimum conditions for PVA/PU blend nanofiber mats fabricated by dual-jet electrospinning were TCD of 20 cm, voltage of 18 kV and TTD of 4 cm. Besides, the thermal stability of PVA/PU blend nanofiber mats had been improved compared with pure nanofibers. Furthermore, the elongation and tensile strength of the blend nanofiber mats were significantly increased compared with pure PVA and pure PU, respectively. And the blend nanofiber mats exhibited well hydrophilicity.  相似文献   

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Fabrication of nanofibers with a defined diameter is a primary purpose of the electrospinning process. The diameter of nanofiber is directly related to its individual features, such as mechanical property and porosity. The motivation to conduct the current study was to explore the diameter of hybrid nanofibers of polycaprolactone-gelatin (PCL-GT) as one of the most attractive scaffolds employed in various research fields, such as tissue engineering and industrial fields. We have developed two predictive models describing the electrospinning process of PCL-GT using response surface methodology (RSM) and artificial neural network (ANN). The effect of 4 variables on diameter was analyzed, including total polymer concentration, ratio of PCL to Gel, voltage, and tip-to-collector distance. The individual and interactive effects of the mentioned factors were analyzed using RSM. The total polymer concentration had the most significant individual effect on the diameter of PCL-Gel nanofiber, whereas the other three factors showed less strong individual effects, although, the interactive effects of these factors were more remarkable. It was demonstrated that both models, especially the ANN model, could accurately predict the diameter of PCL-GT nanofiber (regression coefficient > 0.92, mean absolute percentage error < 5.7). The represented predictive models could facilitate construction of electrospun nanofibers from PCL-Gel with wellcontrolled diameter required for any intended purpose.  相似文献   

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Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/zirconium oxide (ZrO2) composite nanofibers with a skin-core structure were prepared and the effect of ZrO2 particle content on uniform web formation was investigated. The optimized polymer concentration, tip to collector distance, and applied voltage for electrospinning were 11 wt%, 12 cm, and 20 kV, respectively. Skin-core PVA/ZrO2 composite nanofibers containing up to 12 wt% ZrO2 were successfully prepared, but it was difficult to obtain PVA/ZrO2 composite nanofiber webs via conventional electrospinning. Increasing the amount of ZrO2 caused the morphology of the PVA/ZrO2 composite nanofibers to become a non-uniform nanoweb with irregular nanofiber diameters. While it was difficult to obtain a uniform nanofiber web containing a content of ZrO2 over 6 wt% for conventional electrospinning, a more uniform nanofiber web could be obtained at up to 9 wt% ZrO2 using a skin-core dual nozzle. More uniform webs could also be obtained when ZrO2 was in the skin rather than the core.  相似文献   

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Electrospinning is an efficient method to produce polymer fibers with a diameter range from nanometers to a few microns using an electrically driven jet. Electrospun nanofiber nonwoven fabrics can be applied into different areas with higher air volume fraction, especially applied into textile materials with good warmth retention property. In this article, the air volume fraction in nonwoven mats made of electrospun nanofibers was verified by studying fiber volume fraction in the mats. Then the relationship between fiber volume fraction and fiber diameter was derived, and the fiber volume fraction is in direct ratio to the square of fiber radius. By experimental verification, to get electrospun PAN nanofiber nonwoven mats with high air volume fraction about 99 %, it can fix the polymer concentration on 8 %. The voltage fixed on 20 kV, the tip-to-collector distance on 15 cm. The experiment is in accordance with the theory excellently.  相似文献   

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The aim of this work was to evaluate the effective parameters for prediction of the electrospun gelatin nanofibers diameter using artificial neural network (ANN) technique. The various sets of electrospinning process including temperature, applied voltage and polymer and solvent concentrations were designed to produce pure gelatin nanofibers. The obtained results by analyzing Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images indicated that the produced nanofibers diameter was in the range of 85 to 750 nm. Due to the volume of the data, k fold cross-validation method was used for data setting. Data were divided into the five categories and trained and tested using ANN technique. The results indicated that the network including 4 input variables, 3 hidden layers with 10, 18 and 9 nodes in each layers, respectively, and one output layer had the best performance in the testing sets. The mean squared error (MSE) and linear regression (R) between observed and predicted nanofibers diameter were 0.1531 and 0.9424, respectively. The obtained results demonstrated that the selected neural network model had acceptable performance for evaluating involved parameters and prediction of nanofibers diameter.  相似文献   

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This paper focused on using response surface methodology (RSM) and artificial neural network (ANN) to analyze production rate of electrospun nanofibers. The three important electrospinning factors were studied including polymer concentration (wt %), applied voltage (kV) and the nozzle-collector distance (cm). The predicted production rates were in agreement with the experimental results in both ANN and RSM techniques. High regression coefficient between the variables and the response (R 2=0.975) indicates excellent evaluation of experimental data by second-order polynomial regression model. The regression coefficient was 0.988, which indicates that the ANN model was shows good fitting with experimental data. The obtained results indicate that the performance of ANN was better than RSM. It was concluded that applied voltage plays an important role (relative importance of 42.8 %) against production rate of electrospun nanofibers. The RSM model predicted the 2802.3 m/min value of the highest production rate at conditions of 15 wt % polymer concentration, 16 kV of the applied voltage, and 15 cm of nozzle-collector distance. The predicted value showed only 4.4 % difference with experimental results in which 2931.0 m/min at the same setting was observed.  相似文献   

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A theoretical model for the morphology transition of short and continuous nanofibers by electrospinning has been proposed. The influences of polymer concentration, applied voltage, and flow rate on the fabrication of short and continuous nanofibers were mapped for use as a reference in the design and construction of the theoretical model. The morphology transition of short and continuous nanofibers occurred mainly due to changes in the flow rate and voltage. According to the concentration of the polymer in the solution, the map of the short nanofiber region was narrowed as the polymer concentration increased. The theoretical model derived from the conservation of kinetic energy and potential energy experienced by the polymer solution resulted in an equation that could be used to calculate the voltage and flow rates under certain boundary conditions when cutting nanofibers. The boundary conditions for voltage were 4.7-4.9 kV, and the boundary conditions for flow rate were 0.1-1.1 µl/min.  相似文献   

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Biodegradable edible sub-micron electrospun zein fibers were prepared using acetic acid as solvent. The solution concentration at three levels: 22, 26 and 30 w/v %, the electrospinning voltage at three levels: 10, 20 and 30 kV, the solution flow rate at three levels: 4, 8 and 12 ml/h and the distance between needle tip and collector at three levels: 10, 15 and 20 cm were studied. Central composite design (CCD) was utilized to modeling the effect of electrospinning parameters of zein solution on average fiber diameters and the data were analyzed using response surface methodology (RSM). Coefficient of determination, R2, of fitted regression model was higher than 0.9 for response. The analysis of variance table showed that the lack of fit was not significant for response surface model at 95 %. Therefore, the model for response variable was highly adequate. Results also indicated that the solution concentration had significant influence (P<0.0001) on morphology and diameter of fibers. By increasing the solution concentration, uniform and bead-free fibers were obtained. As the solution concentration was increased, the average fiber diameters were also increased. Furthermore, the electrospinning voltage had significant effect (P<0.0001) on average fiber diameters. By increasing the electrospinning voltage, the average fiber diameters increased. The solution flow rate and the distance between needle tip and collector had no significant influence on the average fiber diameters. According to model optimization, the minimum average fiber diameter of electrospun zein fiber is given by following conditions: 24 w/v % zein concentration, 10 kV of the applied voltage, 10 cm of needle tip to collector distance, and 4 ml/h of solution flow rate.  相似文献   

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Electrically conductive nanofibers were fabricated from elastic polyurethane (PU) and PU/multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) nanocomposite by electrospinning method. The nanocomposites were electrospun at various MWCNTs loading. Electron microscopy was used to investigate nanofibers morphology and dispersion of MWCNTs in the electrospun nanofibers. The results showed that the presence of the MWCNTs promoted the creation of fibrous structures in comparison with the PU without MWCNTs. On the other hand, increasing the MWCNTs content resulted in a slight increase in the average fiber diameter. TEM micrographs and mechanical properties of the electrospun mats indicated that the homogeneous dispersion of MWCNTs throughout PU matrix is responsible for the considerable enhancement of mechanical properties of the nanofiber mats. Electrical behavior of the conductive mats was also studied, in view of possible sensor applications. Cyclic experiments were conducted to establish whether the electrical properties were reversible, which is an important requirement for sensor materials.  相似文献   

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This study presents a method for the fabrication of ultrafine polymeric nanobers utilizing centrifugal and electrostatic forces simultaneously. To reduce the diameter and variability of nanofibers produced from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA), a unique electro-centrifuge spinning device was designed using rotating nozzle and collector, whereas the fabrication process (spinning head) was skillfully sealed from ambient airflow. The polymer solution was continuously delivered by a rotating nozzle and the nanofibers were collected by a rotating cylindrical collector at the same rotational speed as the nozzle. Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) results demonstrated that this method has a significant effect on the quality and fineness of nanofibers. The diameters of nanobers were controlled by adjusting the rotation speed of spinning head. The effect of the rotation speed on the morphology of the nanofibers fabricated by this device was also evaluated. In order to provide a useful context for the current nanofiber production method, nanofibers obtained in this method were compared with those produced by other methods. The results show that air-sealedcentrifuge-electrospinning system (ASCES) is a facile method for the fabrication nanobers with smaller diameters and high uniform structures.  相似文献   

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This paper reports on the preparation and characterization of nanofibers and nanofiber/film composites fabricated by electrospinning and dip-coating. The polymers in this study consist of polyurethane, nylon-6, and silicone. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fiber distribution, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and tensile tests were conducted. The electrospun nylon-6 nanofiber/dip-coated silicone film (dried for 5 min) showed the optimum tensile strength and strain results, showing an increase in tensile strength of 63 % compared to pure nylon-6 nanofiber alone. XRD and FTIR verified the presence of individual polymers in the composite matrix. The electrospun PU nanofiber produced the biggest fiber diameter, while electrospun nylon-6, and PU/nylon-6 produced uniform fiber diameters, with PU/nylon-6 obtaining very random and curved fiber morphology.  相似文献   

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Nanofibers definitely hold great advantage and promise in filtration as they have very high specific surface area, which ensures greater probability of capturing the particles and hence, the filtration efficiency of the nanofiber filter media is high. Electrospun nanofibers are prohibitively expensive due to extremely low production rate. With recent advances in melt blowing technology, nanofibers could be produced at production rate few orders of magnitude higher than that of conventional single syringe electrospinning and hence, quite cost effective. Influence of air pressure and die to collector distance (DCD) were studied on the number average fiber diameter for the nanofibers as well as the performance properties of the nonwoven webs, each factor at three discrete levels. The nanofibers were as fine as 260 nm. A very encouraging observation of the study is very high values of quality factor observed for nanofiber nonwoven filter media. In order to compare the filtration efficiency of different nanofiber nonwoven media samples with different basis weight, a novel term of specific filtration efficiency is proposed and was found that the specific filtration efficiency with the increase in DCD or air pressure.  相似文献   

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Well-aligned PMIA nanofiber mats were fabricated by electrospinning and then hot-stretching along the fiber axis was used to improve the mechanical properties of nanofibers in this paper. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to characterize the morphology and properties of nanofibers. The results showed that the nanofibers became thinner and better alignment than the as-spun nanofibers after hotstretching, and the average diameter of the nanofibers decreased with the increasing of the tensile force. In the same time, hotstretching improved the crystallinity and T g of the as-spun PMIA nanofibers. The tensile strength and modulus of the hotstretched nanofiber mats peaked at ca.50 % and ca.196 % respectively at the tensile force of 12 N compared with the as-spun nanofiber mats.  相似文献   

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Electrospinning is a simple and cost-effective method to prepare fiber with nanometer scale. More importantly, 3D flexible nanofiber yarns that fabricated by electrospinning have shown excellent application prospects in smart textiles, wearable sensors, energy storage devices, tissue engineering, and so on. However, current methods for preparing electrospinning nanofiber yarns had some limitations, including low yarn yield and poor yarn structure. In this paper, a stepped airflow-assisted electrospinning method was designed to prepare continuously twisted nanofiber yarn through introducing stepped airflow into traditional electrospinning system. The stepped airflow could not only help to improve nanofiber yield, but also good for controlling the formed nanofibers to be deposited in a small area. In addition, the experimental methods of single factor variables were used to study the effects of stepped airflow pressure, applied voltage, spinning distance, solution flow rate, air pumping volume and friction roller speed on nanofiber yarn yield, nanofiber diameter, yarn twist and mechanical property. The results showed that prepared nanofiber yarns exhibited perfect morphologies and the yield of nanofiber yarn could reach to a maximum of 4.207 g/h. The breaking strength and elongation at break of the prepared yarn could reach to 23.52 MPa and 30.61 %, respectively.  相似文献   

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Wet electrospinning is a simple and efficient method to manufacture continuous nanofiber filaments. However, polyacrylonitrile nanofiber filaments collected using a static water bath are limited for application in certain areas due to their low degree of alignment and breaking stress values. To improve these properties, a novel countercurrent flowing liquid bath collector was combined with a multi-needle electrospinning device. The morphologies, crystalline structures, thermal behaviors and mechanical properties of filaments fabricated under different countercurrent bath liquid motion conditions were investigated. In addition, the forces acting on the nanofibers in the bundling triangular zone under countercurrent liquid bath motion were analyzed. The results showed that the average nanofiber diameter of the filaments decreased with an increase in bath solution motion forces. The maximum alignment degree and breaking stress of the nanofibers were 85 % and 0.63 cN/dtex, respectively, achieved using a liquid flow rate of 80 ml/min and water inlet diameter of 6 mm. The alignment degree of the assembled nanofibers in the bundling triangular zone could be increased by 57 % when using a countercurrent flowing liquid compared with a static liquid bath.  相似文献   

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Electric field plays a key role in electrospinning process for nanofiber and nanofiber yarn producing. The electric field distribution of the yarn manufacturing system is simulated by using finite element method analysis. The effects of electric field distribution and intensity were studied to analyze the influence of the electric field on the electrospun nanofiber yarn surface morphology, mechanical, thermal and water absorption properties. The results show that the morphology and diameters of nanofiber and yarn were obviously affected by the electric field with changing the needle distance and applied voltage, which further influence the mechanical performance of the yarn. The needle distance does not much affect the thermal property of the PSA electrospun yarn, whereas the yarn obtains better thermal resistance properties at voltage of 25 kV. The nanoyarn electrospun and assembled under higher applied voltage is proved to have a better wicking property in our research.  相似文献   

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Introduced recently, electro centrifuge is a new method for nanofiber production. In the electro-centrifuge method, fibers are produced by the simultaneous use of electrical and centrifugal forces. In this research, the effective parameters in the production of PAN nanofibers diameter and the influence of each of them have been discussed. These parameters are voltage, rotation speed, flow rate of exiting solution from nozzle and viscosity of solution. Also the capability of fiber production by this method is compared with the conventional electrospinning system. Results show that a significant enhancement can be achieved by proper adjustments of the polymer solution viscosity, applied voltage, and rotational velocity in fiber production rate. To exemplify, in a PAN polymer solution, the increased production rate of electro centrifuge varied from 193 to 1200 percent, as compared with a similar electrospinning method in which the polymer concentration and applied voltage varied in a range of 13 to 16 wt% and 15 to 10 kV, respectively.  相似文献   

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In this study, the process of electrospinning was used on nanofiber yarn formation. The parameters in the study were flow rate and twist multiplier, which were discussed their effect on yarn formation. Further, a normal yarn was used as the core yarn, which was wrapped with nanofibers to form a new type of composite yarn. In this part of the experiment, the parameters were flow rate and collector width, which were discussed in terms of their effect on the yarn quality of nanofibrous composite yarn. The experiment result showed the diameter of the nanofiber was between 220 nm to 260 nm. When the collector width was 5 mm, there was a high quality wrapping resulting in good yarn, with the nanofiber composite yarn having a strength of 3.25 (cN/dtex).  相似文献   

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Functionalization of cellulosic nanofibers was established to develop antibacterial bandages. The functionalization was conducted through preparation of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) containing different metal nanoparticles (MNPs) such as copper nanoparticles (CuNPs), iron nanoparticles (FeNPs) and zinc nanoparticles (ZnNPs). Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy was used to characterize CMC containing MNPs and scanning electron microscopy coupled with high energy dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX) to study the surface morphology of CMC with and without MNPs. Furthermore, back scattering electron detector was used to show the position of metal nanoparticles on the microcrystalline CMC. In addition, UV-visible spectroscopy was used to confirm MNPs formation. Nanofiber mats of CMC containing MNPs were synthesized using electrospinning technique. Surface morphology of electrospun CMC containing MNPs was characterized using SEM. The obtained data revealed that elctrospun CMC nanofibers containing MNPs were smooth and uniformly distributed without bead formation. The average fiber diameters were in the range of 150 to 200 nm and the presence of MNPs in the nanofiber did not affect the size of the electrospun nanofiber diameter. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images displayed that MNPs were existed inside and over the surface of the electrospun nanofibers without any agglomeration. The average particle diameters of MNPs were 29-39 nm for ZnNPs, 23-27 nm for CuNPs and 22-26 nm for FeNPs. Moreover, Water uptake of electrospun nanofiber mats and the release of MNPs from nanofibers were evaluated. Nevertheless, electrospun CMC nanofibers containing MNPs had an excellent antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli and Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.  相似文献   

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The core-sheath nanofibers consisting of polyurethane (PU) core and PU composites sheath with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were prepared by electrospinning. At low MWNT concentration, MWNTs appeared highly aligned along the fiber axis with some curving in nanotubes, whereas in case of high concentration, some aggregation of MWNTs appeared due to difficulty in full dispersion of nanotubes. In comparison of the single component nanofiber webs, the core-sheath nanofiber webs showed much better mechanical properties of modulus and breaking stress, including an exceptional elongation-at-break. It indicates that the CNT-incorporated core-sheath structure is very effective for enhancing the mechanical properties of nanofiber webs. In addition, the core-sheath nanofibers demonstrated the fast shape recovery, compared with one component fibers of pure shape memory PU and PU/MWNTs, which provides the possibility of fabricating more sensitive intelligent materials.  相似文献   

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