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Preparation of polyacrylonitrile and polyethyleneglycol blend fibers through electrospinning

WEI PAN1,* , YALI SUN1, YAN CHEN1

Affiliation

  1. School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450007, P. R. China

Abstract

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/ Polyethyleneglycol (PEG) blend nanofibers were prepared by electrospinning blend solutions of PEG and PAN in N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF). The surface morphology, thermal properties and crystal structure of electrospun PAN/PEG nanofibers were characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), wide-angle x-ray diffraction (WAXD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Thermo gravimetric analyses (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). SEM image showed that the scope of the diameters was 320-480nm. The diameters of the blend fibers decreased with the increasing of PEG content. FT-IR indicated that intermolecular interactions are formed between two different polymers, which influence the thermal and crystalline properties of electrospun blend nanofibers..

Keywords

Electrospinning, Polycarylonitrile, Polyethyleneglycol, Nanofibers.

Citation

WEI PAN, YALI SUN, YAN CHEN, Preparation of polyacrylonitrile and polyethyleneglycol blend fibers through electrospinning, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 6, 1-2, January-February 2012, pp.230-234 (2012).

Submitted at: Dec. 6, 2011

Accepted at: Feb. 20, 2012