The Basic Setups for Electrospinning

Electrospinning (ES) represents a facile and versatile tool for manufacturing nanofibers. The ES process is involved with the polymer flow with a free surface after appearing from a 

2 Electrospun Nanofibers Prepared from Conjugated Rod-Coil Copolymers 

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Figure 14.6 shows a schematic illustration of the basic setup for electrospinning. It consists of three major components a high-voltage power supply, a spinnerette (a metallic syringe needle) and a collector (a grounded conductor). 

Figure 19.14 Schematic illustration of the basic setup for electrospinning, (a) The typical SEM image of nonwoven mat of polymer nanofibers, (b) CCD image of the stable con-jet spinning model. Photographs illustrating the instability region of a liquid jet and the capture time was on two different scales (c) 1/250 s and, (d) 18 ns. (Reprinted from Polymer, 42, Y.M. Shin, M.M. Hohman, M.P. Brenner and G.C. Rutledge Experimental characterization of electrospinning The electrically forced jet and instabilities, 9955-9967, 2001, with permission from Elsevier.)...

Fig. 1.4 Schematic illustration of the basic setup for electrospinning. The inset shows a typical SEM image of the PA6 nanofibrous membranes deposited on the collector...

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