Parametric study of manufacturing ultrafine polybenzimidazole fibers by electrospinning

International Journal of Plastics Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 101-116

  Anandhan, S ^a   Ponprapakaran, K ^a   Senthil, T ^a   George, Gibin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Electrospinning; Nanofiber; Optimization; PBI

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FIBERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOFIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENT VOLTAGES; DIMETHYL ACETAMIDE; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; POLYBENZIMIDAZOLE FIBERS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; STATISTICAL TOOLS; THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84871402515     PISSN: 0972656X     EISSN: 0975072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12588-012-9036-2     Document Type: Article

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