Experimental Study of Melt Electrospinning in Parallel Electrical Field

Abstract:

In this paper, self-designed electrospinning equipment was used to make a series of electrospinning experiments with materials of polypropylene. The influences of the receiver area, the upper plate area, and the overlapping area between the receiver and the upper plate, on the melt spinning electric field, the spinning efficiency, and the fiber diameter, were investigated respectively. The results showed that when the other parameters were kept unchanged, with the increase of the receiver’s diameter, the electric field strength and spinning efficiency increased, and the fiber diameter increased at first and then decreased; the bigger the overlapping area between the receiver and the upper plate, the more stable the vertical spinning path.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 221)
• Pages: 111-116
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.221.111
• Online since: March 2011
• Authors: Ming Feng Hao, Yong Liu, Xue Tao He, Peng Cheng Xie, Wei Min Yang
• Keywords: Electrostatic Field, Melt-Electrospinning, Parallel Plate, Polypropylene (PP)

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