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Needleless electrospinning using sprocket wheel disk spinneret

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Needleless electrospinning is expected to produce nanofibers with a large productivity. In this study, a sprocket wheel disk was used as spinneret to electrospin nanofibers. The sprocket disk shows reliable electrospinning process. In comparison with the conventional disk spinneret, which has no sprocket on the edge, the sprocket wheel produced more uniform nanofibers with smaller fiber diameter. The electric field analysis results indicated that the sprocket wheel generates higher intensity of electric field.

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The financial support from the Bahauddin Zakariya University through the College of Textile Engineering, Multan, Pakistan, under research support grant (No. DR & EL/D-883) is acknowledged.

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  1. College of Textile Engineering, BZU, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Usman Ali, Sarmad Aslam & Abdul Waqar Rajput

  2. Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3216, Australia

    Usman Ali, Haitao Niu, Sarmad Aslam & Tong Lin

  3. Department of Material Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, Studentská 2, Liberec, 461 17, Czech Republic

    Abdul Jabbar

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Ali, U., Niu, H., Aslam, S. et al. Needleless electrospinning using sprocket wheel disk spinneret. J Mater Sci 52, 7567–7577 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-0989-6

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