120 results about "Electrospun nanofiber" patented technology

The invention discloses a method for manufacturing an electrospun nanofiber gas filtering material in a mass manner by using an umbrella-shaped electrostatic spinning sprayer. The method comprises: dissolving a high-molecular polymer in a solvent, mixing to obtain an even solution; using the spinning solution in electrostatic spinning to obtain a nanofiber membrane; combining the nanofiber membrane with a non-woven fabric, manufacturing non-woven fabric/nanofilm/ non-woven fabric composite film; performing ultrasonic bonding on the non-woven fabric/nanofilm/ non-woven fabric composite film, to manufacture a filtering material. The manufacturing method is convenient and fast, and can realize small-batch production. Filtering efficiency of the obtained filtering material reaches up to 99.55%, filtering resistance is 150-200 Pa, gas permeability reaches 355L.m<-2>.s<-1>, and moisture-penetrability reaches 9.6 m<2>.Pa/w, that is, the material has good gas permeability and moisture penetrability, and the method has very good application prospect in the field of air filtering.

The invention relates to a multiple response type filtration-controllable electrospun nanofiber membrane and a preparation method thereof. Nanofibers are composed of electrostatic spinning thermosensitive and pH responsive polymers and solvents, and the multiple response type filtration-controllable electrospun nanofiber membrane is formed by putting a prepared mixed solution in an injector and then spinning of an electrostatic spinning apparatus. The multiple response type filtration-controllable electrospun nanofiber membrane and the preparation method thereof have the advantages that since smart response of the thermosensitive and pH responsive polymers in the spinning solution is combined with the advantages of large specific area, high porosity and loose and porous performance of the nanofibers, controllable filtration of air is achieved; the preparation method is simple and easy to implement, low in production cost, high in interception efficiency, low in resistance, rapid in filtration reaction, high in treatment efficiency, reusable and capable of achieving smart separability of the nanofiber membrane and can be applied to the fields such as filtration and adsorption, drug delivery, chemical separation, sensing drive and tissue engineering.

The invention discloses a preparation method of an efficient electrostatic spinning oil-water separation fiber membrane. The preparation method includes the steps that polyamic acid (PPA) is synthesized, a PPA nanofiber membrane is prepared in an electrospinning mode, and the PPA nanofiber membrane is imidized into a polyimide membrane (PI); a cellulose acetate (CA) nanofiber membrane is prepared; coaxial electrospinning is carried out on CA-PAA, and a product is imidized into CA-PI; benzoxazine monomers (BAF-tfa) are synthesized; in-situ immobilization is performed on the CA, PI and CA-PI nanofiber membranes with BAF-tfa and BAF-tfa/silica nanoparticles (SiO2NPs); an oil-water separation experiment is carried out. The preparation method has the advantages that by carrying out surface modification on the fiber membranes, the CA-PI nanofiber membrane which is biodegradable, low in cost, large in oil-water separation flow and high in separation efficiency is obtained; the high-performance membrane material has broad application prospects in oil-water separation, sewage treatment and deepwater oil leak.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a bioactive poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)/collagen/hydroxyapatite composite fiber membrane for bone repair. The method comprises the following steps of: treating a poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) electrospun nanofiber membrane by using plasma, coating collagen, and immersing the poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) electrospun nanofiber membrane into a simulated human physiologic body fluid to mineralize to obtain the poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)/collagen/hydroxyapatite composite fiber membrane. The preparation method of the invention has the advantages of simpleness, high speed and wide material sources. By adopting the method of plasma treatment and coating, the highly-bionic nanofiber composite membrane is prepared by the steps of introducing collagen with osteocyte epimatrix into the poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) electrospun nanofiber membrane and depositing active hydroxyapatite onto the fiber membrane, thereby obtaining. The composite fiber membrane has the advantages of favorable combination properties and convenient operation, can effectively promote the capabilities of adherence, growth and calcification osteogenesis of osteoblasts and stem cells, and is hopeful to become an ideal active bracket for bone repair.

The invention relates to a continuous mass production method and continuous mass production equipment for electrospun nanofiber membranes. The method comprises the following steps: (1), electrified electrodes are kept in a vibrating state to drive polymer liquor to a plurality of protrusions on the upper surfaces of the electrified electrodes, so as to form a Taylor cone, and ensure that the whole upper surfaces become spinning surfaces, which obtains high spinning production capacity; (2), air in the space between two electrodes is sucked to the back side of a counter electrode to generate an air flow, so that stressed drift of nanofiber is accelerated, and the nanofiber is sucked to be laid on a continuous receiving screen to form a membrane; and (3) the air flow is heated dry hot air. The equipment comprises a polymer container, the vibrating electrified electrodes, the continuous receiving screen, the counter electrode and a negative pressure chamber, wherein the upper surfaces of the vibrating electrified electrodes are approximately in accordance with the liquid level; the counter electrode is made of a metal mesh or a porous metal plate; the negative pressure chamber comprises a hood, a rear air chamber, a balancing plate and an air suction pump; each vibrating electrified electrode is a metal mesh-shaped plane or a porous metal flat plate; innumerous holes and innumerous small protrusions are formed on the plane; and the small protrusions are regularly arranged and higher than the plane. The invention facilitates mass production of the electrospun nanofiber membranes.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a polydopamine modified ZIF-8 functionalized nanofiber membrane and application of the membrane in antibiotic adsorption. The functionalized nanofibermembrane is prepared through the electrospinning technology and a conventional solution method, polyacrylonitrile serves as a base, the surface of the polyacrylonitrile is wrapped with polydopamine toimprove the polydopamine, so that ZIF-8 crystal particles easily grow on the outermost layer of the polyacrylonitrile. The obtained polydopamine modified ZIF-8 functionalized nanofiber membrane can effectively adsorb tetracycline antibiotics from an aqueous solution, and the obtained polydopamine modified ZIF-8 functionalized nanofiber membrane has excellent recycling ability. The preparation process is simple and feasible, raw materials are easy to obtain and environmentally friendly, the cost is low, and the method has good application prospects.

A dental material using nano material that will serve as reinforcement and will enhance mechanical properties with minimal sacrifice in other properties including processability of a dental material. The dental material may be used as a filling, restorative, cement, liner, adhesive or primer. This is achieved by combining several polymerizable monomers and/or oligomers, a polymerization initiator, at least one hyperbranched additive and at least one of an electrospun nanofiber, an electrospun nanosphere or a hyperbranched macromolecule. The hyperbranched additive may be hyperbranched molecules, dendridic molecules (such as dendrimers). In a preferred embodiment a caged silica (such as POSS) is used for a caged macromolecule. The material may also include nanoclay or traditional composite fillers. The material may optionally include accelerators (such as DEHPT), cross linkers or pigment

A freestyle miniature supercapacitor based on laser graphics and a manufacturing method thereof belong to the technical field of micro-power energy storage. The structure is composed of a solid electrolyte, a flexible electrode and a metal current collector from the bottom up. Carbon nanotubes are dispensed on electrospun nanofibers to obtain the flexible electrode. The present invention proposes the freestyle miniature supercapacitor which uses a planar interdigitated electrode. Compared with a conventional supercapacitor in a sandwich structure, the freestyle miniature supercapacitor has a much lower device thickness, higher device flexibility, and can be better integrated with flexibly electronic devices. Meanwhile, through use of the advantages of the high specific surface area and high conductivity of the electrospun nanofibers and the carbon nanotubess, the light and stable flexible electrode is manufactured to further improve the energy and power density. Compared with other miniature supercapacitors, the freestyle miniature supercapacitor of the invention has the much lower device thickness in a novel electrolyte transfer mode without any additional substrate, and the damage which may be brought for complex transfer technology can be avoided.

The present invention relates to a method for producing flexible, stretchable transparent and highly electrically conducting hybrid polymer films comprising electrically conductive electrospun nanofibers embedded in solution cast dielectric polymer films. In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes an electrically conductive nanofiber, or nanofiber structure, that is embedded in a suitable polymer film. In one embodiment, the electrically conductive nanofiber, or nanofiber structure, can be electrospun from a suitable polymer solution that contains a suitable amount of, for example, at least one conductive material. In one embodiment, the flexible polymer film portion of the present invention can be formed from poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) or polyimide. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to flexible polymer films that have conductive structures embedded therein, wherein the flexible polymer film portion is form via a casting process to produce transparent films from, for example, polycarbonate, polyurethane and/or cyclopolyolefin polymer compositions.

The invention provides a multi-jet friction electrostatic spinning yarn-forming apparatus, which mainly comprises a spinner, a friction rod, a metal rod, a yarn guiding device and a winding device, wherein the spinner is constituted of a plurality of air chambers that are arranged symmetrically to a solution chamber and symmetrically along two sides of the solution chamber; a group of spinning holes arranged along the same axis are set below the solution chamber; the spinner is connected to a positive electrode of a high-voltage generator; two parallelly arranged metal friction rods are set below the spinner; one end of each of the two friction rods is connected to a motor through a wheel gear and the other end of each of the two friction rods is connected to a vortex blower through an air suction pipe; the metal rod connected to a negative electrode of the high-voltage generator is set below the friction rod; and two ends of the friction rod are respectively connected to the yarn guiding device and the winding device. According to the invention, the manufacturing process is simple; the nano fiber yarn production is high; the apparatus provided herein is suitable for various high polymer spinning solutions; and the apparatus provided herein can satisfy large-scale and continuous manufacture for nano fiber yarns.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a high-adsorbability cellulose diacetate composite electrostatic spinning nanofiber ordered porous film. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dissolving cellulose diacetate and polycaprolactone, or cellulose diacetate and a lactic acid-glycolic acid copolymer, or cellulose diacetate and polyvinylpyrrolidone into an organic solvent so as to prepare a spinning solution, and preparing the cellulose diacetate composite electrostatic spinning nanofiber ordered porous film by adopting an electrostatic spinning method. The method disclosed by the invention is simple, and cannot pollute the environment in the preparation process. The prepared cellulose diacetate composite electrostatic spinning nanofiber ordered porous film has tiny fiber diameter, good pore diameter and order degree, is good in dry and wet state adsorption performances, is high in water absorption, can be applied to the flue gas and tobacco industry of the dry state and wet state adsorption and filtration separation industry, is wide in market application prospect, and has relatively high application value.

An electrospun nanofibrous membrane being sheet like and being formed by comprising multiple glucose oxidase/potassium hexacyanoferrate (III) modified electrospun nanofibers, wherein the glucose oxidase/potassium hexacyanoferrate (III) modified electrospun nanofibers are PVA electrospun nanofibers containing glucose oxidase and potassium hexacyanoferrate (III) homogeneously dispersed therein; and the glucose oxidase/potassium hexacyanoferrate (III) modified electrospun nanofibers are PVA electrospun nanofibers and are cross-linked by glutaraldehyde vapor with ultrasonic energy assistance. In the present invention, graphene modified PVA/GOx electrospun membranes were prepared to examine the immobilization mechanism between graphene and GOx. The electrochemical measurement results show that the sensitivities increased with increasing graphene concentrations up to 20 ppm. The highest sensitivity recorded 38.7 μA/mM was for a PVA/GOx membrane with 20 ppm graphene representing a 109% increase over a membrane made without graphene.

A process providing a method to create 3D scaffolds using nano-scale fibers, comprising: deposition and alignment of a plurality of electrospun fiber layers on a substrate; application of a photosensitive biomedical polymer liquid to each fiber layer deposited on said substrate; deposition and cross-alignment of a plurality of electrospun fiber layers on said substrate; retaining said polymer liquid in place using said cross-aligned fiber layers; curing said polymer liquid on top of each fiber layer using UV light.

The invention relates to carbon-coated MoSe2/graphene nanofibers prepared by electrospining and a preparation method thereof. The nanofibers are composed of coated carbon, MoSe2 and graphene. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dissolving water soluble molybdenum salt and a high polymer in a mixed solution of deionized water and ethylene glycol, heating the mixed solution till a stable transparent sol is formed, adding the graphene into the molybdenum salt solution to form an electrospining solution; electrospining the electrospining solution to obtain hybridized fibers; and then vacuum sintering the hybridized fibers obtained in the step 2 and zero valent selenium powder in a tubular furnace to obtain a carbon-coated MoSe2/graphene nanofiber material. The fibers are uniform in shape and length, and MoSe2 crystals are uniformly distributed in the fibers and are coated by amorphous carbon; and the graphene as a conductive network is uniformly distributed in the fibers. According to the carbon-coated MoSe2/graphene nanofibers provided by the invention, the raw materials are easily available, the preparation process is simple and controllable reaction conditions are mild, and the obtained product has a relatively high specific surface area, excellent conductivity and structural stability and can be used as an ideal lithium/sodium ion battery cathode material and a high performance electrocatalytic material.

The invention defines a nonwoven membrane for the controlled and sustained release of a therapeutic or cosmetic active agent in the area of the body to be treated. This nonwoven membrane comprises one single type of biocompatible electrospun nanofibers and microparticles of at least one therapeutic or cosmetic active agent which are entangled between the nanofibers, the active agent having a low water solubility.

In one aspect of the present invention, a fuel cell membrane-electrode-assembly (MEA) has an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a membrane disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. At least one of the anode electrode, the cathode electrode and the membrane is formed of electrospun nanofibers.

The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to pre-concentrator compositions, devices, systems, and/or methods for concentrating small quantities of chemical or biological compounds, e.g., CBRNE compounds. A pre-concentrator of the disclosure may be operable to releasably bind and concentrate CBRNE compounds. In some embodiments, a pre-concentrator may comprise a 3-D structure of electrospun nanofibers, that comprise at least one polymer, one conducting agent and at least one chemical-specific functional group and/or biological-specific moiety configured to selectively bind to a CBRNE compound. Bound compounds may be released and detected. Pre-concentrator devices and systems operable to bind, concentrate, and/or detect one or more CBRNE compounds are described. Devices and systems of the disclosure may be configured to concentrate and detect multiple compounds. Methods for synthesizing pre-concentrators as well as methods for concentrating, detecting and identifying compounds of interest are also set forth.

A fluid filtration device containing a composite filter media having a coarse porous polymeric nonwoven interlayer located between first and second polymeric fiber containing filter mats. The fiber diameters of the fibers in the first and second filter mats are different from each other, and each filter mat has a different pore size rating. The first and second polymeric fibers in the filter mats can be electrospun nanofibers. The interlayer has a coarser pore size when compared to the either the first or second filter mats, such that the resulting composite media has an increased dirt holding capacity compared to filter layers that are layered directly over each other without the presence of a coarse interlayer therebetween.

Novel electrospun nanofibers and nanofibrous membranes, methods of manufacturing the same, and methods of using the same are provided. The nanofibers include a cactus mucilage, such as mucilage from Opuntia ficus-indica. An organic polymer can be added to the cactus mucilage before electrospinning The nanofibrous membranes can be used in water filtration.