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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 135, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.45578
Keywords
biomaterials; biomedical applications; electrospinning; fibers; viscosity and viscoelasticity
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81371939, 31270150]
- State Key Lab of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology [2014-5]
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Considerable efforts have been devoted to the production of polycaprolactone (PCL) nanofibrous structures by electrospinning. However, some toxic solvents have often been used to achieve bead-free nanofibers. At present, a benign solvent such as glacial acetic acid (GAC) only leads to beaded or microscale fibers. Therefore a study is done to extend the electrospinnability of the PCL/GAC system by the addition of H2O. The solution properties of conductivity, viscosity, and surface tension were altered by the addition of H2O, especially increasing the conductivity and viscosity. These properties essential to electrospinning could remain stable for 6h when the H2O content was less than or equal to 9 vol %. Then ultrafine PCL fibers with diameters from 188 to 200nm, 10 times smaller than when dissolved in pure GAC, were electrospun from solutions of PCL with concentrations in the range of 17 to 20 wt % with H2O content at 9 vol %. Finally, the crystallinity and crystallite size of the resulting fibers were smaller than that of raw PCL pellets. (c) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018, 135, 45578.
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