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Drawing suspended polymer micro-/nanofibers using glass micropipettes

Author(s) -

Amrinder S. Nain,

J. Wong,

Cristina H. Amon,

Metin Sitti

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

applied physics letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182

H-Index - 442

eISSN - 1077-3118

pISSN - 0003-6951

DOI - 10.1063/1.2372694

Subject(s) - polystyrene , polymer , nanofiber , materials science , amorphous solid , nanoscopic scale , pipette , composite material , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , chemistry , engineering , organic chemistry

This letter proposes a method for fabricating suspended micro-/nanoscale polymer fibers continuously, in which polymeric micro-/nanofibers are formed by drawing and solidification of a viscous liquid polymer solution which is pumped through a glass micropipette. By controlling the drawing parameters, this method is demonstrated to form networks of suspended fibers having amorphous internal structure and uniform diameters from micrometers down to sub-50-nm for different molecular weights of polystyrene dissolved in xylene.

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