| Literature DB >> 23616339 |
Su-Kyoung Chae1, Edward Kang, Ali Khademhosseini, Sang-Hoon Lee.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23616339 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201300837
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Mater ISSN: 0935-9648 Impact factor: 30.849