Abstract
Nanofibers were prepared from water-extractable melt-blown immiscible polymer blends containing a commercial sulfopolyester (SP) as the sacrificial phase. Application of the water-dispersible SP eliminates issues associated with organic solvents, providing a facile, economic, and environment-friendly approach to high throughput fabrication of melt-blown nanofibers with an average diameter as small as 66 nm. Moreover, this approach offers a new route to prepare multilayer melt-blown nano-/micro-fiber composites. We demonstrate the fabrication of porous double-layer melt-blown PBT nano-/micro-fiber composites by tuning the collection time of the melt-blown SP/PBT blend fibers. Such materials are potentially useful for filtration media.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 269-273 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Polymer |
| Volume | 101 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 28 2016 |
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Keywords
- Melt-blown
- Nanofibers
- Water-extractable blends
How much support was provided by MRSEC?
- Shared
Reporting period for MRSEC
- Period 3
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Wang, Z., Liu, X., Macosko, C. W., & Bates, F. S. (2016). Nanofibers from water-extractable melt-blown immiscible polymer blends. Polymer, 101, 269-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2016.08.058