Unconfined, melt edge electrospinning from multiple, spontaneous, self-organized polymer jets

Materials Research Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Qingqing ^a   Curtis, Colin K ^b   Thoppey, Nagarajan Muthuraman ^b   Bochinski, Jason R ^b   Gorga, Russell E ^b   Clarke, Laura I ^b  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Melt electrospinning; Mesofibers; Polycaprolactone; Polyethylene; Scale up

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; FIBERS; NANOFIBERS; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYETHYLENES;

FABRICATED FIBERS; HIGH VISCOSITY FLUIDS; JET-TO-JET SPACING; MELT ELECTROSPINNING; MESOFIBERS; PRODUCTION RATES; SCALE-UP; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS; APPLIED VOLTAGES;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84926365921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/1/4/045304     Document Type: Article

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