Tailoring the grooved texture of electrospun polystyrene nanofibers by controlling the solvent system and relative humidity

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-10

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

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Grooved texture; Phase separation; Polystyrene nanofibers

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ELECTROSPINNING; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MORPHOLOGY; NANOFIBERS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TEXTURES;

FORMATION MECHANISM; JET SURFACES; MIXED SOLVENT; N ,N-DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; POLYSTYRENE NANOFIBERS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; SOLVENT SYSTEM; TETRAHYDROFURANS;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 84940328996     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-350     Document Type: Article

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