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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 103, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2924439
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Recent experiments demonstrated that the essential electrospinning mechanism is a rapidly whipping dielectric liquid jet in an electric field. The effects of three kinds of electric field distributions including a very nonuniform electric field, a slightly nonuniform electric field, and a uniform electric field were studied to analyze the influence of the electric field distribution on the electrospinning process and the fiber morphology. The average electric field strength E-av and the electric field nonuniformity coefficient f were used to describe the electric field. The results show that the length range of the straight jet path for stable electrospinning process was a function of the electric field distribution. The length of the jet straight part increased with the decreasing f. The initial angle of the looping envelope and the helical pitch decreased with decreasing f. The results also show that higher voltages can be used at the nozzle for a stable electrospinning when f is small. A higher voltage at the nozzle can produce a larger average electric field strength which will help produce smaller fiber diameters for the large bending frequency. (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics.
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