Fabrication of free-standing ordered fluorescent polymer nanofibres by electrospinning
Date
27/04/2015Metadata
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We demonstrate a static fabrication approach to make free-standing ordered arrays of fluorescent nanofibres through control of the transverse electrospinning field. The alignment and the density of the nanofibre arrays are optimised by careful design of both the source and collector electrode geometries which can control the transverse electric field over the full path of the jet. In doing so, we fabricate suspended fluorescent nanofibres with an aspect ratio of 10(4), and with a substantially increased density and order parameter (by a factor of similar to 10 compared to random deposition). Electrostatic modelling suggests that the field distribution of the component is the main contribution to the ordering between the plates. This method offers increased efficiency for the creation of ordered fibres collected over a small area and the characterisation of their photoluminescent properties.
Citation
Stevenson , J R Y , Lattante , S , Andre , P , Anni , M & Turnbull , G A 2015 , ' Fabrication of free-standing ordered fluorescent polymer nanofibres by electrospinning ' , Applied Physics Letters , vol. 106 , no. 17 , 173301 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918660
Publication
Applied Physics Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0003-6951Type
Journal article
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The authors are grateful to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for financial support.Collections
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