Crystalline morphology of electrospun poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) nanofibers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4939-4949

  Wang, Xiaofeng ^a   Zhao, Haibin ^b   Turng, Lih Sheng ^c   Li, Qian ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED NANOFIBERS; AMORPHOUS REGIONS; CRYSTALLINE MORPHOLOGIES; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; MOLECULAR CHAINS; PLATE COLLECTORS; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 84875767343     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302185e     Document Type: Article

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