Assembly of Well-Aligned Electrospun Nanofibers via Contact-Transfer Printing

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Electrospinning is a simple and practical method for fabricating uniform fibers with diameters range from several micrometers down to a few nanometers. In order to achieve highly ordered arrays of nanofibers, a novel and feasible approach, named contact-transfer printing of electrospun fibers, is reported in this paper. Via this method, large-scale aligned nanofibers on various rigid or flexible substrates can be assembled. This technique is demonstrated to be efficient on transferring of electrospun nanofibers with a high degree of alignment (~88.2%) on a SiO2 substrate. In addition, it is found that the printing outcome highly depends on the pressure between collecting and receiving substrate.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 562-564)

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277-280

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August 2012

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