Zuo Feng, Tan Dawud H, Wang Zaifei, Jeung Soondeuk, Macosko Christopher W, Bates Frank S
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.
Cummins Filtration, 1200 Fleetguard Road, Cookeville, Tennessee 38502, United States.
ACS Macro Lett. 2013 Apr 16;2(4):301-305. doi: 10.1021/mz400053n. Epub 2013 Mar 26.
Nanofibers were generated by melt blowing three sets of polymer blends, each comprised of pairs of immiscible components. Blends containing minority phases (25% by volume) of poly(ethylene--chlorotrifluoroethylene) (PECTFE) in poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT), PECTFE in poly(styrene) (PS), and PBT in PS were dispersed as droplets in a continuous majority phase and melt blown into long (>100 μm) fibers with average diameters of several micrometers. Electron microscopy experiments revealed that melt blowing transformed the initial spherical dispersions into a nanofiber-in-fiber morphology. Macroscopic mats of nonwoven PBT and PECTFE nanofibers, with average diameters as small as 70 nm, were isolated by selectively removing the majority phase with a solvent. This method provides a potentially inexpensive, high throughput, one-step route to scalable quantities of polymeric nanofibers.
通过熔喷三组聚合物共混物来制备纳米纤维,每组共混物均由成对的不相容组分组成。在聚对苯二甲酸丁二醇酯(PBT)中含有聚(乙烯-氯三氟乙烯)(PECTFE)的少数相(体积分数25%)的共混物、在聚苯乙烯(PS)中含有PECTFE的共混物以及在PS中含有PBT的共混物,以液滴形式分散在连续的多数相中,并熔喷成长度大于100μm且平均直径为几微米的纤维。电子显微镜实验表明,熔喷将初始的球形分散体转变为纤维中含有纳米纤维的形态。通过用溶剂选择性地去除多数相,分离出了平均直径小至70nm的非织造PBT和PECTFE纳米纤维的宏观毡垫。该方法提供了一种潜在的低成本、高通量、一步法制备可扩展数量聚合物纳米纤维的途径。