Drawing suspended polymer micro-/nanofibers using glass micropipettes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Nain, Amrinder S ^c   Wong, Joanna C ^c   Amon, Cristina ^c   Sitti, Metin ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS INTERNAL STRUCTURES; GLASS MICROPIPETTES; NANOFIBERS; POLYMER FIBERS;

MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMERIC GLASS; POLYSTYRENES; SOLIDIFICATION; XYLENE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33750700002     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2372694     Document Type: Article

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