Micro/Nanometer‐Scale Fiber with Highly Ordered Structures by Mimicking the Spinning Process of Silkworm
- 25 April 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Advanced Materials
- Vol. 25 (22) , 3071-3078
Abstract
A new method for the microfluidic spinning of ultrathin fibers with highly ordered structures is proposed by mimicking the spinning mechanism of silkworms. The self-aggregation is driven by dipole–dipole attractions between polar polymers upon contact with a low-polarity solvent to form fibers with nanostrands. The induction of Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities at the dehydrating interface between two miscible fluids generates multi-scale fibers in a single microchannel.Keywords
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