Morphological characterization of individual polyacrylonitrile nanofibers

Current Nanoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 415-419

  Ravandi, S A Hosseini ^a   Pan, N ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Univ of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration; Cross sectional shape; Electrospinning; Polyacrylonitrile nanofiber; Take up speed; Voltage

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; POLYACRYLONITRILE NANOFIBER; TAKE-UP SPEED; VOLTAGE;

DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ELECTROSPINNING; IMAGE PROCESSING; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYACRYLONITRILES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOFIBERS;

N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; NANOFIBER; POLYACRYLONITRILE;

ARTICLE; ELECTROSPINNING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

EID: 79956276858     PISSN: 15734137     EISSN: 18756786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341311795542462     Document Type: Article

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