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Conductive PANI fibres and determining factors for the electrospinning window

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posted on 2015-10-05, 10:22 authored by Panagiota Moutsatsou, Karen CoopmanKaren Coopman, Martin SmithMartin Smith, Stella GeorgiadouStella Georgiadou
Polyaniline doped with CSA / PEO conductive nanofibres were produced by electrospinning. The electrospinning window was determined by using a three level, full factorial experimental design. The combined effects of the humidity, voltage and flow rate on the fibre morphology and diameter were examined demonstrating that the ambient humidity is the critical factor affecting the electrospinning process and determining the electrospinning window for a conductive polymer. Low humidity favors the formation of defect free fibres while high humidity either hinders fibre formation or causes the formation of defects on the fibres either due to jet discharge or due to water absorption and phase separation. High level of doping with CSA led to the formation of crystalline structures. Data fitting was used to explore the behavior of conductive polymers in electrospinning and very good agreement between experimental and theoretical predictions was obtained for only a limited range of experimental conditions, whereas deviation was observed for all other sets of conditions.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Polymer

Volume

77

Pages

143 - 151

Citation

COOPMAN, K. ... et al, 2015. Conductive PANI fibres and determining factors for the electrospinning window. Polymer, 77, pp.143–151.

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© Elsevier

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  • SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2015-08-21

Publication date

2015-08-28

Notes

This paper was submitted to the journal Polymer and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2015.08.039

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  • en

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