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Macromolecular Research, Vol.16, No.3, 212-217, April, 2008
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A Study of Electrospun PVDF on PET Sheet
Noppavan Chanunpanich, Byungsoo Lee1, and Hongsik Byun2, †
  • Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, King Mongkut’sInstitute of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 1Department of Automotive Engineering, Keimyung University, Daegu 704-701, Korea
  • 2Department of Chemical System Engineering, Keimyung University, Daegu 704-701, Korea
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PVDF (Kynar® 761) nanofibers were made by electrospinning with an external voltage of 6-10 kV, a traveling distance of 7-15 cm and a flow rate of 0.4-1 mL/h. Although the mean diameter of the fibers has not changed significantly, the conditions affected the change in diameter distribution. This was attributed to interactions, both attraction and repulsion, between the positive charges on the polymer solutions and the electrically grounded collector. Higher voltages and traveling distance increased the level of attraction between the positive charge on the polymer solution and the electrically grounded collector, resulting in a narrow diameter distribution. In addition, a high flow rate allowed a high population of uniformly charged solutions to travel to the grounded collector, which resulted in a narrow diameter distribution. The optimum conditions for electrospinning of PVDF in DMAc/acetone (3/7 by wt) were a collector voltage of 6 kV, a syringe tip to collector of 7 cm, a flux rate of 0.4mL/h and 10 kV, 10 cm, 1 mL/h. Since PVDF is widely used as a filtration membrane, it was electrospun on a PET support with a rotating drum as a grounded collector. Surprisingly, some straight nanofibers were separated from the randomly deposited nanofibers. The straight nanofiber area was transparent, while the randomly deposited nanofiber area was opaque. Both straight nanofibers and aligned nanofibers could be obtained by manipulating the PET drum collector. These phenomena were not observed when the support was changed to an Al sheet. This suggests that a pseudo dual collector was generated on the PET sheet. No negative charge was created because the PET sheet was not a conductive material. However, less charge was created when the sheet was not perfectly attached to the metal drum. Hence, the nanofibers jumped from one grounded site to the nearest one, yielding a straight nanofiber.
Keywords:PVDF;electrospinning;alignment
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