Dispersity and spinnability: Why highly polydisperse polymer solutions are desirable for electrospinning

Polymer

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 4920-4931

  Palangetic, Ljiljana ^a   Reddy, Naveen Krishna ^a   Srinivasan, Siddarth ^b   Cohen, Robert E ^b   McKinley, Gareth H ^b   Clasen, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Extensibility average molecular weight; Polydisperse polymers

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPINNING; ESTERS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; VISCOSITY;

AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ENTANGLEMENT CONCENTRATION; HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMERS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT FRACTION; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); POLY-DISPERSE SOLUTIONS; POLYDISPERSE POLYMERS; WEIGHT-AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

POLYDISPERSITY;

EID: 84908128421     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.07.047     Document Type: Article

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