Electrostatic field-assisted alignment of electrospun nanofibres
- 28 August 2001
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nanotechnology
- Vol. 12 (3), 384-390
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/12/3/329
Abstract
This paper describes an electrostatic field-assisted assembly technique combined with an electrospinning process used to position and align individual nanofibres (NFs) on a tapered and grounded wheel-like bobbin. The bobbin is able to wind a continuously as-spun nanofibre at its tip-like edge. The alignment approach has resulted in polyethylene oxide-based NFs with diameters ranging from 100-300 nm and lengths of up to hundreds of microns. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of this new approach for assembling NFs in parallel arrays while being able to control the average separation between the fibres.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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