Dispersity and spinnability: Why highly polydisperse polymer solutions are desirable for electrospinning

We develop new criteria that describe the minimum concentration limits controlling the spinnability of dilute and semi-dilute flexible polymer solutions with high molecular weight and varying polydispersity. By asserting that the finite and bounded extensional viscosity of the solution is the key ma...

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Main Authors: Palangetic, Ljiljana, Reddy, Naveen Krishna, Clasen, Christian, Srinivasan, Siddarth, Cohen, Robert E, McKinley, Gareth H
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105354
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4591-6090
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-7692
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8323-2779