Electrospinning of Grooved Polystyrene Fibers: Effect of Solvent Systems

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Wanjun ^a   Huang, Chen ^a   Jin, Xiangyu ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Grooved nanofibers; Polystyrene; Solvent systems

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; BOILING POINT; DICHLOROMETHANE; ELONGATION; FIBERS; NANOFIBERS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYSTYRENES; SOLVENTS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TEXTURES;

BINARY SOLVENT SYSTEMS; EFFECT OF SOLVENTS; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; N ,N-DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; SOLVENT SYSTEM; SURFACE TEXTURES; TETRAHYDROFURANS; ULTRA-FINE FIBERS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84930680879     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0949-5     Document Type: Article

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