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Morphology study of nanofibers produced by extraction from polymer blend fibers using image processing

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The morphology of nanofibers extracted from the industrial-scale produced polypropylene/polybutylene terephthalate (PP/PBT) blend fibers was studied. To study the morphology and diameter measurements of the nanofibers, image processing method was used, and the results were compared with the results of a conventional visual method. Comparing these two methods indicated the good performance of image processing methods for the measuring of nanofiber diameter. Among the various applied image processing methods, the fuzzy c-means (FCM) method was determined as the best for image thresholding. Additionally, the distance transform method was determined as the best way for measuring nanofiber diameter. According to high regression coefficient (R=0.98) resulting between the draw ratio and nanofibers diameter, the high effectiveness of draw ratio to nanofiber diameter is concluded. The spherical (drop) shapes of the PBT dispersed phase particles were eventually deformed into very thin fibrils during the drawing process. The results of measuring the nanofiber diameters showed that the diameter means of nanofibers varied from 420 nm to 175 nm with the highest draw ratio. Good uniformity for diameter of nanofibers was observed, which had not been observed in previous works.

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    Neda Dehghan, Mohammad Ali Tavanaie & Pedram Payvandy

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Dehghan, N., Tavanaie, M.A. & Payvandy, P. Morphology study of nanofibers produced by extraction from polymer blend fibers using image processing. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 32, 1928–1937 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-015-0004-3

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