Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt Electrospinning
Electrospinning (e-spinning) is an emerging technique to prepare ultrafine fibers. Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) is a high-performance resin which does not dissolve in any solvent at room temperature. Commercial PPS fibers are produced mainly by meltblown or spunbonded process to give fibers ~20 &...
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| author | Zuo-Ze Fan Hong-Wei He Xu Yan Ren-Hai Zhao Yun-Ze Long Xin Ning |
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| description | Electrospinning (e-spinning) is an emerging technique to prepare ultrafine fibers. Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) is a high-performance resin which does not dissolve in any solvent at room temperature. Commercial PPS fibers are produced mainly by meltblown or spunbonded process to give fibers ~20 μm in diameter. In this research, an in-house designed melt electrospinning device was used to fabricate ultrafine PPS fibers, and the e-spinning operation conducted under inert gas to keep PPS fibers from oxidizing. Under the optimum e-spinning conditions (3 mm of nozzle diameter, 30 kV of electrostatic voltage, and 9.5 cm of tip-to-collector distance), the as-spun fibers were less than 8.0 μm in diameter. After characterization, the resultant PPS fibers showed uniform diameter and structural stability. Compared with commercial PPS staple fibers, the obtained fibers had a cold crystallization peak and 10 times higher storage modulus, thereby offering better tensile tenacity and more than 400% elongation at break. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-771151d2fe5141a786995c0702724c962022-12-22T02:41:50ZengMDPI AGPolymers2073-43602019-03-0111353010.3390/polym11030530polym11030530Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt ElectrospinningZuo-Ze Fan0Hong-Wei He1Xu Yan2Ren-Hai Zhao3Yun-Ze Long4Xin Ning5Industrial Research Institute of Nonwovens & Technical Textiles, College of Textiles & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, ChinaIndustrial Research Institute of Nonwovens & Technical Textiles, College of Textiles & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, ChinaIndustrial Research Institute of Nonwovens & Technical Textiles, College of Textiles & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, ChinaIndustrial Research Institute of Nonwovens & Technical Textiles, College of Textiles & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, ChinaCollaborative Innovation Center for Nanomaterials & Devices, College of Physics, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, ChinaIndustrial Research Institute of Nonwovens & Technical Textiles, College of Textiles & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, ChinaElectrospinning (e-spinning) is an emerging technique to prepare ultrafine fibers. Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) is a high-performance resin which does not dissolve in any solvent at room temperature. Commercial PPS fibers are produced mainly by meltblown or spunbonded process to give fibers ~20 μm in diameter. In this research, an in-house designed melt electrospinning device was used to fabricate ultrafine PPS fibers, and the e-spinning operation conducted under inert gas to keep PPS fibers from oxidizing. Under the optimum e-spinning conditions (3 mm of nozzle diameter, 30 kV of electrostatic voltage, and 9.5 cm of tip-to-collector distance), the as-spun fibers were less than 8.0 μm in diameter. After characterization, the resultant PPS fibers showed uniform diameter and structural stability. Compared with commercial PPS staple fibers, the obtained fibers had a cold crystallization peak and 10 times higher storage modulus, thereby offering better tensile tenacity and more than 400% elongation at break.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/11/3/530melt electrospinningPPS fibershigh tensile ductilityhigh-performance fibers |
| spellingShingle | Zuo-Ze Fan Hong-Wei He Xu Yan Ren-Hai Zhao Yun-Ze Long Xin Ning Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt Electrospinning Polymers melt electrospinning PPS fibers high tensile ductility high-performance fibers |
| title | Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt Electrospinning |
| title_full | Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt Electrospinning |
| title_fullStr | Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt Electrospinning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt Electrospinning |
| title_short | Fabrication of Ultrafine PPS Fibers with High Strength and Tenacity via Melt Electrospinning |
| title_sort | fabrication of ultrafine pps fibers with high strength and tenacity via melt electrospinning |
| topic | melt electrospinning PPS fibers high tensile ductility high-performance fibers |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/11/3/530 |
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