Atmospheric plasma treatment of pre-electrospinning polymer solution: A feasible method to improve electrospinnability

Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-122

  Shi, Quan ^a   Vitchuli, Narendiran ^a   Nowak, Joshua ^b   Lin, Zhan ^a   Guo, Bingkun ^a   McCord, Marian ^a,c   Bourham, Mohamed ^b   Zhang, Xiangwu ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c Biomedical Research Imaging Center   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric plasma; electrospinning; fibers; melting point; nanofibers; poly(ethylene oxide)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA TREATMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PLASMAS; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTROSPINNABILITY; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; ELECTROSPUNS; PLASMA EFFECTS; PLASMA TREATMENT; SEM;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ETHYLENE; MELTING POINT; NANOFIBERS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMAS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SURFACE TENSION;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 78650440932     PISSN: 08876266     EISSN: 10990488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/polb.22157     Document Type: Article

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