Advances in Polymer Nanofibers: Thermomechanical Properties and Internal Supermolecular Structure
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 380
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer physics; nanotechnology; polymer nanofibers; polymer system under confinement; kinetic processes in dispersion systems; aggregation processes; structure formation; self-ordering in the kinetic systems; kinetics of chemical reactions in condensed phase; transport phenomena in heterogeneous media
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to present an upcoming Special Issue devoted to the one of hot topics of modern nanotechnology: examination of electrospun polymer nanofibers demonstrating outstanding mechanical and unusual thermodynamic properties as compared to macroscopic-scale structures. Now-a-days is wide accepted that these features are attributed to nanofiber non-equilibrium microstructure, formed during the electrospinning process. The point is that due to the electrospinning specific, the spinning polymer solution undergoes a high stretching rate accompanied by fast solvent rapid evaporation. The first circumstance (high stretching rate) results in formation of non-equilibrium supermolecular structure; whereas the second one (rapid evaporation) provides the fixing of the formed non-equilibrium mentioned above internal structure of electrospun polymer nanofibers. Although the above reason providing outstanding properties of electrospun polymer nanofibers, is, in principle, understandable, there remain in this field a lot of open questions, required additional comprehensive investigations. In such a situation it is suitable to draw the attention of the community dealing the electrospun polymer nanofibers, to the problems in question, collecting in a Special Issue a set of papers, devoted to the above research field. The goal of this Special Issue is to demonstrate and clarify the relationship between the internal non-equilibrium structure of electrospun polymer nanofibers and their thermomechanical properties.
Dr. Arkadi Arinstein
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Electrospinning
- Polymer nanofibers
- Supermolecular structures
- Non-equilibrium state
