Investigation of post-spinning stretching process on morphological, structural, and mechanical properties of electrospun polyacrylonitrile copolymer nanofibers

Polymer

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 519-528

  Lai, Chuilin ^a   Zhong, Ganji ^b   Yue, Zhongren ^c   Chen, Gui ^d   Zhang, Lifeng ^a   Vakili, Ahmad ^c   Wang, Ying ^d   Zhu, Lei ^b   Liu, Jie ^d   Fong, Hao ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofibers; Electrospinning; Polyacrylonitrile

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBERS; ELECTROSPINNING; MACROMOLECULES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYACRYLONITRILES;

ALIGNED BUNDLES; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; HELICAL CONFORMATION; POLYACRYLONITRILE (PAN); POLYACRYLONITRILE COPOLYMERS; STRETCHING PROCESS;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 78651380824     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2010.11.044     Document Type: Article

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