Effect of Different Post-Treatment on the Morphology, Structure and Property of Electrospun SF Nanofiber Mats

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In this paper, we employed Methanol, 75% Ethanol, 100%Ethanol, and Isopropanol to treat electrospun SF nanofiber mats, and studied the morphology, structure and property of SF nanofiber before and after treatment by means of SEM, and FTIR. While the as-spun SF nanofiber mats consisted of α-helix and random coil, post-treatment of the SF nanofiber resulted in significant increase in β-sheet component and improvement of water resistance of the SF nanofiber mats. This effect was not obvious affected when different post-treatment system was used, but methanol and 75% was more effective in inducing conformation transition from α-helix and random coil to β-sheet.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 557-559)

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July 2012

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