Spinning industrial polymers electrospinning

Widely used industrial approaches for the produetion of polymer fibres and yarns, such as coagulation spinning and electrospinning, have also been utilised for the fabrication of polymer nanotube eomposites. In coagulation spinning, for example, composite fibres ean be produced by an injection of surfactant-stabilised nanotube dispersion in water into a rotating bath of polymer e.g. PVA) dissolved in water sueh that nanotube and polymer dispersions flowed in the same direction at the point of injection. In this case, polymer molecules replace surfactant molecules on the nanotube surface, thus destabilising the nanotubes dispersion whieh eollapses to form a fibre. These fibres can then be retrieved from the bath, rinsed and dried. 

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