Tailoring Crystallinity of Electrospun Plla Fibres by Control of Electrospinning Parameters

Polymers

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1331-1348

  Ero Phillips, Olubayode ^a   Jenkins, Mike ^a   Stamboulis, Artemis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degree of crystallization; Electrospinning; Electrospinning parameters; Poly(l lactic acid)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITIES; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROSPINNING PARAMETERS; ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS; ELECTROSPINNING VOLTAGES; ELECTROSPUN FIBERS; ELECTROSPUNS; MAXIMUM DEGREE; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; PLLA; POLY L LACTIC ACID; POLYMER PROPERTIES; SECURITY APPLICATION; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; TIP-TO-COLLECTOR DISTANCE;

DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FIBERS; LACTIC ACID; ORGANIC POLYMERS; THERMOANALYSIS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84865078187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym4031331     Document Type: Article

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