electrospun polyamide 4.6 nanofibrous nonwovens parameter study and characterization实际上电纺聚酰胺4.6 nanofibrous非织造布参数研究和表征.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 860654, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/860654 Research Article Electrospun Polyamide 4.6 Nanofibrous Nonwovens: Parameter Study and Characterization ¨ ¨ Bert De Schoenmaker, Lien Van der Schueren, Ozgur Ceylan, and Karen De Clerck Department of Textiles, Ghent University, Technologiepark 907, 9052 Ghent, Belgium Correspondence should be addressed to Karen De Clerck, karen.declerck@ugent.be Received 14 December 2011; Accepted 16 February 2012 Academic Editor: Tong Lin Copyright © 2012 Bert De Schoenmaker et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The aliphatic polyamide 4.6 (PA 4.6) has unique properties compared to the commonly used polyamides 6 (PA 6) and 6.6 (PA 6.6). The purpose of this paper is to produce uniform and reproducible nanofibrous PA 4.6 structures. Therefore, a mixture of the sol- vent formic acid and the nonsolvent acetic acid is used to dissolve and electrospin the PA 4.6. First the steady-state behaviour of the process and the boundary limits of the solution parameters needed for steady-state electrospinning are investigated. Subsequently, the effect of several solution and process parameters on the fibre morphology is examined, using microscopic techniques and ther- mal analysis. The polyamide concentration is found to be the dominant parameter affecting the fibre diameter and morphology. Furthermore, tensile tests are performed on upscaled nanofibrous s