Drawing Suspended Polymer Micro/Nanofibers Using Glass Micropipettes
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This paper 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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