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- Title
Micro/Nanometer-scale fiber with highly ordered structures by mimicking the spinning process of silkworm.
- Authors
Chae, Su-Kyoung; Kang, Edward; Khademhosseini, Ali; Lee, Sang-Hoon
- Abstract
A new method for the microfluidic spinning of ultrathin fibers with highly ordered structures is proposed by mimicking the spinning mechanism of silkworms. The self-aggregation is driven by dipole-dipole attractions between polar polymers upon contact with a low-polarity solvent to form fibers with nanostrands. The induction of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the dehydrating interface between two miscible fluids generates multi-scale fibers in a single microchannel.
- Publication
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2013, Vol 25, Issue 22, p3071
- ISSN
1521-4095
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1002/adma.201300837