1. Needleless electrospinning using sprocket wheel disk spinneret
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Sarmad Aslam, Tong Lin, Usman Ali, Haitao Niu, Abdul Waqar Rajput, and Abdul Jabbar
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Materials science ,Fiber diameter ,business.product_category ,020502 materials ,Mechanical Engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Edge (geometry) ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Electrospinning ,0205 materials engineering ,Mechanics of Materials ,Nanofiber ,Electric field ,General Materials Science ,Composite material ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Sprocket - Abstract
Needleless electrospinning is expected to produce nanofibers with a large productivity. In this study, a sprocket wheel disk was used as spinneret to electrospin nanofibers. The sprocket disk shows reliable electrospinning process. In comparison with the conventional disk spinneret, which has no sprocket on the edge, the sprocket wheel produced more uniform nanofibers with smaller fiber diameter. The electric field analysis results indicated that the sprocket wheel generates higher intensity of electric field.
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- 2017
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