A Theron et al 2001 Nanotechnology 12 384 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/12/3/329
A Theron, E Zussman1 and A L Yarin
Show affiliationsThis paper describes an electrostatic field-assisted assembly technique combined with an electrospinning process used to position and align individual nanofibres (NFs) on a tapered and grounded wheel-like bobbin. The bobbin is able to wind a continuously as-spun nanofibre at its tip-like edge. The alignment approach has resulted in polyethylene oxide-based NFs with diameters ranging from 100-300 nm and lengths of up to hundreds of microns. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of this new approach for assembling NFs in parallel arrays while being able to control the average separation between the fibres.
81.07.-b Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization
Issue 3 (September 2001)
Received 11 June 2001
Published 28 August 2001
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