MECHANISM OF NANOFIBER CRIMP

Abstract

Fabrication of crimped fibers has been caught much attention recently due to remarkable improvement surface-to-volume ratio. The precise mechanism of the fiber crimp is, however, rare and preliminary. This paper finds that pulsation of fibers is the key factor for fiber crimp, and its configuration (wave formation) corresponds to its nature frequency after solidification. Crimping performance can be improved by temperature control of the uncrimped fibers. In the paper, polylactide/dimethylfomamide solution is fabricated into crimped nanofibers by the bubble electrospinning, an approximate period- amplitude relationship of the wave formation is obtained.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2013-03-05
  • Revision Date2013-06-01
  • Acceptance Date2013-06-03
  • Online Date2013-12-28

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI1305473C

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