Annealing effect on electrospun polymer fibers and their transformation into polymer microspheres

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 343-349

  Fan, Ping Wen ^a   Chen, Wan Ling ^a   Lee, Ting Hsien ^a   Chen, Jiun Tai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

annealing; interfacial tension; morphology; poly(methyl methacrylate)

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING EFFECTS; ANNEALING PROCESS; AVERAGE SIZE; DRIVING FORCES; ELECTROSPUN FIBERS; ELECTROSPUNS; FIBER PROPERTIES; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; NON-SOLVENTS; POLYMER FIBER; POLYMER MICROSPHERES; POST-TREATMENT METHOD; RAYLEIGH INSTABILITY; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS;

ANNEALING; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ESTERS; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FIBERS; MICROSPHERES; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMERS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

MICROSPHERE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE;

EID: 84863148665     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: 15213927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100734     Document Type: Article

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