Drawing suspended polymer micro-/nanofibers using glass micropipettes
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- 30 October 2006
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 89 (18) , 183105
Abstract
This letter proposes a method for fabricating suspended micro-/nanoscale polymer fibers continuously, in which polymeric micro-/nanofibers are formed by drawing and solidification of a viscous liquid polymer solution which is pumped through a glass micropipette. By controlling the drawing parameters, this method is demonstrated to form networks of suspended fibers having amorphous internal structure and uniform diameters from micrometers down to sub- for different molecular weights of polystyrene dissolved in xylene.
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