Fabrication of melt spun polypropylene nanofibers by Forcespinning

Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-60

  Raghavan, Bharath ^a   Soto, Haidy ^b   Lozano, Karen ^b  

^a FibeRio Technology Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MELT SPINNING; NANOFIBERS; SPINNING (FIBERS); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

BETA-PHASE; FIBER DIAMETERS; MELT FLOW RATE; MELT-SPUN; MOLECULAR DEGRADATION; NONWOVEN NANO-FIBER; ROTATIONAL SPEED;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84875334251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15589250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155892501300800106     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. www.inda.org/pubs/handbooks/filtration_forward.pdf [accessed on April 28, 2011]
2. www.bccresearch.com/pressroom/report/code/AVM043C [accessed on April 28, 2011]
3. Hinds, WC, Aerosol Technology, New York,John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999.
4. Ondarcuhu, T. and Joachim, C. "Drawing asingle nanofibre over hundreds of microns", Europhysics Letters, 42(2), 215-220, 1998.
5. Feng, L., Li, S., Li, H., Zhai, J., Song, Y., Jiang, L. and Zhu, D. "Super - hydrophobicsurface of aligned polyacrylonitrilenanofibers", Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 41(7), 1221-1223, 2002.
6. Martin, CR. "Membrane - Based Synthesis ofNanomaterials", Chemistry of Materials, 8(8), 1739-1746, 1996.
7. Ma, PX, and Zhang, R. "Synthetic nano - scalefibrous extracellular matrix", Journal of biomedical materials research, 46(1), 60-72, 1999.
8. Liu, G., Ding, J., Qiao, L., Guo, A., Dymov, BP., Gleeson, JT., Hashimoto, T. and Saijo, K. "Polystyrene - block - poly (2 - cinnamoylethyl methacrylate) nanofibers- preparation, characterization, and liquid crystalline properties", Chemistry--A European Journal, 5(9), 2740-2749, 1999.
9. Whitesides, GM. and Grzybowski, B. "Self-assembly at all scales", Science (New York, N.Y.) (2002), 295(5564), 2418-21, 2002.
10. Deitzel, JM., Kleinmeyer, JD., Hirvonen, JK, and Beck Tan, NC. "Controlled depositionof electrospun poly (ethylene oxide) fibers", Polymer, 42(19), 8163-8170, 2001.
11. Doshi, J. and Reneker, DH. "Electrospinningprocess and applications of electrospun fibers", Journal of Electrostatics, 35(2&3), 151-60, 1995.
12. Subbiah, T., Bhat, GS, Tock, RW, Parameswaran, S. and Ramkumar, SS. "Electrospinning of nanofibers", Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 96(2), 557-569, 2005.
13. Ellison, CJ, Phatak, A., Giles, DW, Macosko, CW. and Bates, FS. "Melt blown nanofibers:Fiber diameter distributions and onset of fiber breakup", Polymer, 48(11), 3306-3316, 2007.
14. http://www.bccresearch.com/report/NAN043A.html [accessed on December 30, 2011].
15. Nakajima, T. Advanced Fibre Spinning Technology, Woodhead Publishing Limited, England, 1994.
16. Theron, SA, Yarin, AL., Zussman, E. and Kroll, E. "Multiple jets in electrospinning:experiment and modeling", Polymer, 46(9), 2889-2899, 2005.
17. Tomaszewski, W. and Szadkowski, M. Investigation of electrospinning with theuse of a multi-jet electrospinning head, FIBRES & TEXTILES in Eastern Europe, 13(4), 22-26, 2005.
18. Zhou, FL., Gong, RH. And Porat, I. "Three-jetelectrospinning using a flat spinneret", J. Mater Sci, 44, 5501-5508, 2009.
19. Jirsak, O., Sanetrnik, F., Lukas, D, Na, Z. and Koteck, V. CZ Patent WO2005024101,2005.
20. www2.dupont.com/Teflon_Industrial/en_US/assets/./h44587.pdf [accesed on December30, 2011].
21. Han, D. and Steckl, AJ. "Superhydrophobic andoleophobic fibers by coaxialelectrospinning", Langmuir, 25(16), 9454-9462, 2009.
22. Xiong, J., Huo, P. and Ko, FK. "Fabrication ofultrafine Fibrous polytetrafluoroethyleneporous membrane by electrospinning" Journal of Materials Research, 24(9), 2755-2761, 2009.
23. Scheffler, R., Bell, NS, and Sigmund, W. "Electrospun teflon AF fibers forsuperhydrophobic membranes", Journal of Materials Research, 25(8), 1595-1600, 2010.
24. Lozano, K. and Rane, Y. "A facile method toprepare ultrathin fibers (abstact only)", IPrime Annual meeting, May 31-June 2, 2011.
25. Rein, DM, Shavit-Hadar, L., Khalfin, RL, Cohen, Y., Shuster, K. and Zussman, E. "Electrospinning of ultrahigh-molecular- weight polyethylene nanofibers", Journal of Polymer Science: Part B: Polymer Physics, 45(7), 766-773, 2007.
26. Wang, C., Hsieh, TC. And Cheng, YW. "Solution-electrospun isotacticpolypropylene fibers: processing and microstructure development during stepwise annealing", Macromolecules, 43(21), 9022-9029, 2010.
27. Tan, DH, Zhou, C., Ellison, CJ, Kumar, S., Macosko, CW. and Bates, FS. "Meltblownfibers: Influence of viscosity and elasticity on diameter distribution", J. Non-Newtonian Fluids Mechanics, 165(15-16), 892-900, 2010.
28. Rangkupan, R. and Reneker, DH. "Electrospinning process of molten polypropylene in vacuum", Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 12(2), 81-87, 2003.
29. Lyons, J., Li, C. and Ko, F. "Melt-electrospinning part I: processing parameters and geometric properties", Polymer 45, 7597-7603, 2004.
30. Zhmayev, E., Cho, D. and Joo, YL. "Nanofibersfrom gas-assisted polymer meltelectrospinning", Polymer, 51(18), 4140-4144, 2010.
31. Johnson, MH, Krause, T., Ilayes, MW, Chhabra, R., Aydore, S., Isele, OEA and Xu, H. "Process and apparatus for producing sub-micron fibers and non-wovens and articles containing same", US 7666343 B2, 2010.
32. Assouline, E., Lustiger, A., Barber, AH, Cooper, CA, Klein, E., Watchel, E. and Wagner, HD. "Nucleation ability ofmultiwalled carbon nanotubes in polypropylene composites", Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 41(5), 520-527, 2003.
33. Garbarczyk, J., Paukszta, D. and Borysiak, "Polymorphism of isotactic polypropylenein presence of additives, in blends and in composites", Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B-Physics, 41 (4/6), 1267-1278, 2002.
34. Lotz, B., Wittman, JC, and Lovinger, AJ. "Structure and morphology of poly(propylenes): a molecular analysis", Polymer, 37(22), 4979-4992, 1996.
35. Meille, SV, Ferro, DR., Brückner, S., Lovinger, AJ, and Padden, FJ, "Structure of β-isotacticpolypropylene: a long-standing structural puzzle", Macromolecules, 27(9), 2615-2622, 1994.
36. Dorset, DL, McCourt, MP, Kopp, S., Schumacher, M., Okihara, T. and Lotz, B. "Isotactic polypropylene, β-phase: a study in frustration", Polymer, 39(25), 6331-6337, 1998.
37. Cho, D., Zhou, H., Cho, Y., Audus, A. and Joo, YL. "Structural properties andsuperhydrophobicity of electrospun polypropylene fibers from solution and melt", Polymer, 51(25), 6005-6012, 2010.
38. Lee, KH, Kim, HY, La, YM, Lee, DR. and Sung, NH. "Influence of a mixing solventwith tetrahydrofuran and N, N-dimethylformamide on electrospun poly (vinyl chloride) nonwoven mats", Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 40(19), 2259-2268, 2002.
39. Reneker, DH, Kataphinan, W., Theron, A., Zussman, E. and Yarin, AL. "Nanofibergarlands of polycarpolactone by electrospinning", Polymer 43(25), 6785-6794, 2002.
40. Baji, A., Mai, YW., Wong, SC, Abthahi, M and Chen, P. "Electrospinning of polymernanofibers: effects on oriented morphology, structures and tensile properties", Composites Science and Technology, 70(5), 703-718, 2010.