Tailoring surface hydrophilicity of porous electrospun nanofibers to enhance capillary and push-pull effects for moisture wicking

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 14087-14095

  Dong, Yuliang ^a,b,c   Kong, Junhua ^a   Phua, Si Lei ^a   Zhao, Chenyang ^a   Thomas, Noreen L ^c   Lu, Xuehong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capillary motion; electrospinning; moisture transport; porous nanofibers; push pull; wetting

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPINNING; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOISTURE; WETTING;

CAPILLARY EFFECTS; CAPILLARY MOTION; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; POLYACRYLONITRILE (PAN); POROUS NANOFIBERS; PUSH PULL; SURFACE HYDROPHILICITY;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 84906819077     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503417w     Document Type: Article

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