Premium
“Practical” Electrospinning of Biopolymers in Ionic Liquids
Author(s) -
Shamshina Julia L.,
Zavgorodnya Oleksandra,
Bonner Jonathan R.,
Gurau Gabriela,
Di Nardo Thomas,
Rogers Robin D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201601372
Subject(s) - ionic liquid , electrospinning , chitin , nanoscopic scale , chemical engineering , ionic bonding , materials science , nanofiber , nanotechnology , shrimp , chemistry , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , polymer , chitosan , ion , composite material , catalysis , fishery , engineering , biology
To address the need to scale up technologies for electrospinning of biopolymers from ionic liquids to practical volumes, a setup for the multi‐needle electrospinning of chitin using the ionic liquid 1‐ethyl‐3‐methylimidazolium acetate, [C 2 mim]‐[OAc], was designed, built, and demonstrated. Materials with controllable and high surface area were prepared at the nanoscale using ionic‐liquid solutions of high‐molecular‐weight chitin extracted with the same ionic liquid directly from shrimp shells.