Corona-electrospinning: Needleless method for high-throughput continuous nanofiber production

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 279-286

  Molnar, Kolos ^a   Nagy, Zsombor K ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Corona electrospinning; Electrospinning; High output spinneret; Industrialization; Polymer nanofibers; Scale up

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTROSPINNING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOFIBERS; POLYMERS; SPINNING (FIBERS); THROUGHPUT;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CHARGE CONCENTRATION; ELECTROSPINNING METHOD; HIGH OUTPUT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; OPERATION EXPERIENCES; POLYMER NANOFIBERS; SCALE-UP;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84949496594     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2015.11.028     Document Type: Article

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