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Review of Literature: Melt Electrospinning

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Polypropylene Nanofibers

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Recently, nanotechnology has been booming in many important areas such as medicine, engineering, electronics and textiles. In fibrous materials it has predominantly come up in the form of electrospun nanofibres. This chapters deals with the process widely used for the fabrication of nanofibres, which is electrospinning due to its simplicity and suitability for a variety of polymers. Different types of electrospinning such as solution and melt electrospinning have been discussed. As this study is based on melt electrospinning, the research works related to the factors influencing the fibre properties such as applied voltage, collector distance, polymer viscosity and conductivity have been discussed. Furthermore, the characterisation of nanofibres using various technologies has also been discussed.

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Nayak, R. (2017). Review of Literature: Melt Electrospinning. In: Polypropylene Nanofibers. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61458-8_2

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