Electrospinning of polymer melts: Phenomenological observations

Polymer

Volumn 48, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6823-6833

  Dalton, Paul D ^a,b   Grafahrend, Dirk ^b,c   Klinkhammer, Kristina ^b,c   Klee, Doris ^b,c   Möller, Martin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Deutsches Wollforschungsinstitut   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Melt electrospinning; Scaffold; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYPROPYLENES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

MELT ELECTROSPINNING; MELT ELECTROSPUN BLENDS; POLYMER JETS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

ADDITIVE; ELECTROSPINNING; FELT; FIBER DIAMETER; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; POLYMER BLEND; POLYMER MELT; POLYMER SOLUTION; POLYPROPYLENE FIBER; VISCOSITY;

EID: 35448931587     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.09.037     Document Type: Article

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