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The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning
Melt electrospinning is a simple, versatile, and widely used technique for the production of microfibers and sub-microfibers. Polybutylene succinate (PBS) is a promising raw material for the preparation of melt-electrospun fibers at the laboratory scale. The inclusion of additives in the PBS melt ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35890641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14142865 |
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author | Ostheller, Maike-Elisa Balakrishnan, Naveen Kumar Groten, Robert Seide, Gunnar |
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description | Melt electrospinning is a simple, versatile, and widely used technique for the production of microfibers and sub-microfibers. Polybutylene succinate (PBS) is a promising raw material for the preparation of melt-electrospun fibers at the laboratory scale. The inclusion of additives in the PBS melt can reduce the final fiber diameter, but economically feasible larger-scale processes remain challenging. The fiber diameter can also be reduced by machine optimization, although this is expensive due to the complexity of melt-electrospinning devices. Changes in electrical field polarity have provided a low-cost strategy to reduce the diameter of fibers produced by solution-electrospinning, but there is little information about the effect of this parameter on the final diameter of melt-electrospun fibers. We therefore determined the effect of field polarity on the diameter of melt-electrospun PBS fibers at the laboratory scale and investigated the transferability of these results to our 600-nozzle pilot-scale device. Changing the polarity achieved a significant reduction in fiber diameter of ~50% at the laboratory scale and ~30% at the pilot scale, resulting in a minimum average fiber diameter of 10.88 µm. Although the effect of field polarity on fiber diameter was similar at both scales, the fibers in the web stuck together at the laboratory scale but not at the pilot scale. We have developed an inexpensive method to reduce the diameter of melt-electrospun PBS fibers and our data provide insight into the transferability of melt electrospinning from the laboratory to a pilot-scale machine. |
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spelling | pubmed-93215302022-07-27 The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning Ostheller, Maike-Elisa Balakrishnan, Naveen Kumar Groten, Robert Seide, Gunnar Polymers (Basel) Article Melt electrospinning is a simple, versatile, and widely used technique for the production of microfibers and sub-microfibers. Polybutylene succinate (PBS) is a promising raw material for the preparation of melt-electrospun fibers at the laboratory scale. The inclusion of additives in the PBS melt can reduce the final fiber diameter, but economically feasible larger-scale processes remain challenging. The fiber diameter can also be reduced by machine optimization, although this is expensive due to the complexity of melt-electrospinning devices. Changes in electrical field polarity have provided a low-cost strategy to reduce the diameter of fibers produced by solution-electrospinning, but there is little information about the effect of this parameter on the final diameter of melt-electrospun fibers. We therefore determined the effect of field polarity on the diameter of melt-electrospun PBS fibers at the laboratory scale and investigated the transferability of these results to our 600-nozzle pilot-scale device. Changing the polarity achieved a significant reduction in fiber diameter of ~50% at the laboratory scale and ~30% at the pilot scale, resulting in a minimum average fiber diameter of 10.88 µm. Although the effect of field polarity on fiber diameter was similar at both scales, the fibers in the web stuck together at the laboratory scale but not at the pilot scale. We have developed an inexpensive method to reduce the diameter of melt-electrospun PBS fibers and our data provide insight into the transferability of melt electrospinning from the laboratory to a pilot-scale machine. MDPI 2022-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9321530/ /pubmed/35890641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14142865 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ostheller, Maike-Elisa Balakrishnan, Naveen Kumar Groten, Robert Seide, Gunnar The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning |
title | The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning |
title_full | The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning |
title_short | The Effect of Electrical Polarity on the Diameter of Biobased Polybutylene Succinate Fibers during Melt Electrospinning |
title_sort | effect of electrical polarity on the diameter of biobased polybutylene succinate fibers during melt electrospinning |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35890641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14142865 |
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