Exploration of melt-electrospinning based on the novel device

Author

Yang, Cuiru ; Jia, Zhidong ; Wang, Ke ; Xu, Zhihai ; Zhicheng Guan ; Wang, Liming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

19-23 July 2009

Firstpage

1223

Lastpage

1226

Abstract

The melt-electrospinning setup was designed in this paper. The temperature of every part in the setup,, including injector, nozzle, spinning space and collection target can be measured accurately by thermocouple or infrared radiation thermometers. The study on phenomena and properties of exploration for melt-electrospinning based on the novel device was conducted. The polypropylene was chosen for the material of melt-electrospinning. The effects of nozzle temperature (T₂) and spinning space temperature (T₃) on the fiber diameters were mainly analyzed in this paper, and the experimental results showed that the average fiber diameters decreased with the increase of temperature (T₂ or T₃). The minimum fiber with diameter 4.472 mum was gained in our meltelectrospinning. The unique morphology of fiber mat was observed in the electrospinning system due to the influence of electric field of heating plane.

Keywords

electrospinning; melt spinning; polymer fibres; fiber morphology; infrared radiation thermometers; melt electrospinning; nozzle temperature; polypropylene; spinning space temperature; thermocouple; Conducting materials; Morphology; Optical fiber devices; Polymers; Resistance heating; Solvents; Space heating; Spinning; Temperature control; Temperature measurement; fibers; heating devices; melt-electrospinning; polypropylene; temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials, 2009. ICPADM 2009. IEEE 9th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4367-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4368-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADM.2009.5252294

Filename

5252294