Nonisothermal drop impact and evaporation on polymer nanofiber mats

Hydrodynamics of Drop Impact and Spray Cooling through Nanofiber Mats

Electrospinning and stabilization of chitosan nanofiber mats

Chitosan is of special interest for biotechnological and medical applications due to its antibacterial, antifungal and other intrinsic physical and chemical properties. The biopolymer can, e.g., be used for biotechnological purposes, as a filter medium, in medical products, etc. In all these applications, the inner surface should be maximized to increase the contact area with the filtered mediu...

Antibacterial activity of photocatalytic electrospun titania nanofiber mats and solution-blown soy protein nanofiber mats decorated with silver nanoparticles

a Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 842W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607-7022, USA b School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 136-713, Korea c School of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Korea d Department of Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Se...

Optimization of Polymer-ECM Composite Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering: Effect of Cells and Culture Conditions on Polymeric Nanofiber Mats

The design of composite tissue scaffolds containing an extracellular matrix (ECM) and synthetic polymer fibers is a new approach to create bioactive scaffolds that can enhance cell function. Currently, studies investigating the effects of ECM-deposition and decellularization on polymer degradation are still lacking, as are data on optimizing the stability of the ECM-containing composite scaffol...

Finite Element Modeling of Nonisothermal Polymer Flows

This paper describes a finite element formulation designed to simulate polymer melt flows in which both conductive and convective heat transfer may be important, and illustrates the numerical model by means of computer experiments using extruder drag flow and entry flow as trial problems. Fluid incompressibility is enforced by a penalty treatment of the element pressures, and the thermal convec...