Electrospinning is a process for nano-microfibers materials formation. During electrospinning a jet of polymer solution is formed by electrostatic forces. Solvent evaporates, a polymer jet split to thin fibers while jet moving to grounded electrode. The structure of electrospun material depend from polymer, solvent type, polymer molecular weight, viscosity of polymer solution, electric conductivity, surface tension and technological parameters as applied voltage, distance between electrodes, flow rate of polymer solution. Electrospun nano-microfibers materials have fibers with diameter in nanoscale, huge specific surface are and porosity, due these characteristics electrospun material are widely used for filters, protective cloths, sensors, but the application area is biomedicine (wound dressing, drug delivery systems, scaffolds for tissue engineerings). During this project will be electrospun materials from biomedical polymers and investigated the influence of bicomponent solution content on structure of electrospun material.
Project funding:
Project is funded by EU Structural Funds according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments priority “Development of scientific competence of researchers, other researchers, students through practical scientific activities” under Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712.
Period of project implementation: 2018-07-02 - 2018-08-31
Project coordinator: Kaunas University of Technology
