Polymer chain conformations in solutions for electrospinning

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This proposal is part of a research programme which is focused on nano-fibres prepared by electrospinning. The programme is centered on developing an understanding of the formation of structure during spinning. We have shown successfully that we can exploit low Q neutron scattering technques to study nanofibres of labelled mixtures of polystyrene prepared using different conditions and this has shown that although the chain trajectories are largely isotropic they are strongly dependent on the concentration in the initial solution. This proposal seeks time to complete these studies by determining the chain dimensions in the starting highly concentrated solutions of polystyrene in strongly polar solvents using labelled mixtures in a null scattering length solvent. This is only possible using low Q neutron scattering.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24070891
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24070891
Provenance
Creator Professor Geoffrey Mitchell; Dr Saeed Mohan; Dr Fred Davis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-08-03T08:15:17Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-08-05T08:53:29Z