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Competitive effects of centrifugal force and electric field force on centrifugal electrospinning

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Due to a unique high efficiency in producing microfibers and nanofibers, centrifugal electrospinning that combines centrifugal spinning and electrospinning has attracted great interest in academic research and industrial manufacturing. This work is focused on the effects of various parameters of centrifugal electrospinning on the structure and properties of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) fibers prepared by centrifugal electrospinning. The spinning parameters of interest included spinning voltage and rotation speed, and the characteristics of fibers included spinning productivity, jet trajectory, fiber morphology, fiber diameter, and fiber alignment. It was found that there was a competitive relationship between centrifugal force and electrostatic force during fiber formation. When only centrifugal force was applied, the obtained fibers mostly exhibited a circular distribution. When the electrostatic force began to increase, the fibers became increasingly uniform in morphology and showed a distribution in the vertical circumferential direction. The fiber alignment shows that the effects of these two factors on fiber alignment are competitive. The fiber yield shows that when the rotating speed is fixed at 1500 rpm, with the increase of voltage, the yield increases significantly and then increases slowly. The results suggest that centrifugal electrospinning can be favorable in the production of nanostructured fiber materials.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Professor Xiaozhen Yang of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, for his valuable discussions. This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21374008).

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  1. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China

    Jia Chen, Song Hong & Yong Liu

  2. College of Mechanical and Electric Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China

    Hengwei Hu & Tiandan Song

  3. Department of Design and Merchandising, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Yan Vivian Li

  4. School of Advanced Materials Discovery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Yan Vivian Li

  5. School of Biomedical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Yan Vivian Li

  6. Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, Jilin, China

    Ce Wang

  7. Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Ping Hu

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Chen, J., Hu, H., Song, T. et al. Competitive effects of centrifugal force and electric field force on centrifugal electrospinning. Iran Polym J 31, 1147–1159 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13726-022-01073-5

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