191 results about "Taylor cone" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for preparing nano-fiber blending composite yarn. The method comprises the steps that (1) a functional high-molecular polymer is dissolved in a corresponding solvent to obtain an even electrostatic spinning solution; (2) traditional spinning, including cotton carding, is carried out on short fibers; (3) electrostatic spinning is carried out on the electrostatic spinning solution by means of a TAYLOR cone multi-spray-head electrostatic spinning machine, wherein spinning jet flows are directly sprayed upwards onto fleece which is about to become sliver and formed in the cotton carding process, then fleece containing nano-fibers is obtained, the fleece containing the nano-fibers enters the next yarn forming process directly after becoming the sliver, and finally the nano-fiber blending composite yarn is obtained. The preparing method is simple. The nano-fiber blending composite yarn prepared through the combination of the electrostatic spinning technique and the traditional spinning technique is functional to a certain degree, belongs to nano-textile in the true sense, and is capable of improving the additional value of a product.

The invention relates to a Taylor cone multi-nozzle electrostatic spinning machine, which comprises a nozzle box (1), an automatic liquid feeding device (2), a spinneret group, a high-voltage electrostatic generator (4) and a rolling mechanism, wherein the spinneret group is arranged in the nozzle box and is fed with liquid by the automatic liquid feeding device (2), yarns emitted by the electrostatic field generated by the high-voltage electrostatic generator (4) are collected by the rolling mechanism, and the spinneret group consists of a plurality of spinnerets arranged. The invention can improve the quality and the output of felt, and has stable operation and uniform product. Under the same process conditions, the thinness of the spun nanofiber is half the thinness of fiber spun by conventional electrostatic spinning machine.

The invention provides a preparing device and method for forming micro-nanofiber, and belongs to the field of biological materials and tissue engineering. An electrostatic spinning sprayer is provided with different holes arranged side by side, an appropriate amount of original electricity texture liquid is injected into the electrostatic spinning sprayer through a micro-injection pump, a plurality of taylor cones are formed by the parallel spraying holes in the electrostatic spinning sprayer at the same time through externally added high voltage, and therefore the different sizes of original electricity texture yarns can be obtained through the single step, the yield of the original electricity texture yarns is effectively increased, and the micro-nanofiber is prepared. By means of the method for electrostatic spinning, and the electrostatic spinning yield can be increased and is obviously higher than that of single-needle electrostatic spinning; the effective means for adjusting the diameter of the spinning fiber is provided, the uniform micro-nanofiber or micro-nanofiber with different sizes can be prepared, the range of the diameter of the fiber can be controlled to range from 50 nm to 1 mm, and the problem of the productivity and size adjusting in the related fields of the electrostatic spinning micro-nanofiber is effectively solved.

Devices and methods for high-throughput manufacture of concentrically layered nanoscale and microscale fibers by electrospinning are disclosed. The devices include a hollow tube having a lengthwise slit through which a core material can flow, and can be configured to permit introduction of sheath material at multiple sites of Taylor cone formation.

Devices and methods for high-throughput manufacture of concentrically layered nanoscale and microscale fibers by electrospinning are disclosed. The devices include a hollow tube having a lengthwise slit through which a core material can flow, and can be configured to permit introduction of sheath material at multiple sites of Taylor cone formation formation.

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 device and a method for twisting electrostatic spinning nanofiber into yarn in a jetting mode. A spinning solution is injected in an injector of a fiber jetting device, a needle of the injector is connected with a high voltage static electricity generating device, the spinning solution is subjected to the effect of electric field force to form a Taylor cone to jet flow, the spinning solution is deposited on the surface of a solvent in a water tank to form a felt-shaped material, nanofiber bundles are formed by the felt-shaped material through mobility of the solvent and traction of a roller and subsequent devices, a drafting device is heated to remove the solvent contained in the nanofiber bundles to achieve effective drafting, the nanofiber bundles are sent in a Laura jaw, an air compressor is started, the nanofiber bundles enter a double-nozzle twisting device and are twisted into the yarn through mutual effect of a first nozzle and a second nozzle, and the yarn is led out through an output roller and wound into a cylinder through a winding device. The device and the method for twisting the electrostatic spinning nanofiber into the yarn in the jetting mode integrate fiber jetting, condensation, bundle concentration, drafting, twisting and winding and are simple in device and process, suitable for various polymer spinning solutions and capable of achieving continuous and large-scale production of the nanofiber yarn.

The invention discloses an electrostatic spinning device for manufacturing nano fibers in an electromagnetic field with a coupling method. The electrostatic spinning device comprises a material basket, a piston, a spinning nozzle, a high-voltage power supply device, a receiving plate and a grounding power line. The electrostatic spinning device further comprises an electric conduction coil arranged between the spinning nozzle and the receiving board and right opposite to the spinning nozzle and the receiving board. Two electromagnets are arranged on the receiving board in parallel. The orientation of nano fibers collected by electrified polymer solutions is greatly improved under the action of the electromagnetic field which is large enough. Meanwhile, the positively charged coil is added in the flow jetting process of polymers, jet flow can be stabilized, the range of a Taylor cone is reduced, and the degree of order of the nano fibers is further improved. The electrostatic spinning device for manufacturing the nano fibers in the electromagnetic field with the coupling method is simple in structure, convenient to operate, easy to control and short in technological process.

The invention discloses a melt differential electrostatic spinning device and process. The device mainly comprises a melt differential electrostatic spinning nozzle and a multi-electric-field coupling strong drafting device, wherein the melt differential electrostatic spinning nozzle is arranged above the multi-electric-field coupling strong drafting device. The melt differential electrostatic spinning nozzle mainly comprises a spreader plate, a nut, a spring washer, an air duct locating pin, a screw, a nozzle body locating pin, a nozzle body, an air duct, a heating device, a temperature sensor, an inner cone nozzle and a grounding electrode. The multi-electric-field coupling strong drafting device mainly comprises a first plate electrode, a second plate electrode, a first high-voltage electrostatic generator, a second high-voltage electrostatic generator and a fiber receiving plate. Under the action of force of a wind field and an electric field, finally, polymer melt is differentially and evenly distributed to form dozens of Taylor cones of one circle along the edge of the conical face, then dozens of jet flow are formed and refined to be nanometer filaments, a plurality of melt differential electrostatic spinning nozzle bodies are installed below the spreader plate so as to achieve mass production of nanometer fibers, the structure is simple, and parts are easy to machine and assemble.

The invention provides an electrostatic spinning device and a cleaning method of an electrostatic spinning nozzle of the electrostatic spinning device. The electrostatic spinning device comprises an injector pushing mechanism, an injector, the electrostatic spinning nozzle, a control system, a movement platform and a collector, wherein the injector is arranged on the movement platform, the injector pushing mechanism is arranged at one end of the injector, the electrostatic spinning nozzle is arranged at the other end of the injector, a high-voltage direct-current power supply is connected with the electrostatic spinning nozzle, the high-voltage direct-current power supply and the movement platform are connected with the control system, and the collector is arranged on the movement platform; the electrostatic spinning nozzle comprises an upper nozzle portion and a lower nozzle portion which are connected with the injector, the upper nozzle portion is of a hollow structure, the side wall of the upper nozzle portion is provided with a through hole, the lower nozzle portion is in a solid cone shape, solution in the injector oozes out through the through hole, the solution flows to the tail end of the nozzle along the Taylor cone to form a Taylor cone and jet flow, and the jet flow is collected on the collector and deposits to form fibers. The electrostatic spinning device and the cleaning method can resolve the problem of blocking of the nozzle, and thinner fibers can be spun. The cleaning method of the nozzle is easy and convenient to implement.

The invention discloses a spray tube electrospinning head, and belongs to the field of electrospinning. The spray tube electrospinning head comprises an electrospinning head body, wherein a solution connecting portion is arranged on the tail portion of the electrospinning head body, a horn-shaped spinning nozzle, a polarization throat port and a solution chamber hole are formed in the electrospinning head body in sequence from top to bottom, and are communicated with one another, the inner wall face of the spinning nozzle is a circular-arc curved surface which gradually expands outwards, the port diameter of the polarization throat port is smaller than the hole diameter of the solution chamber hole, the outer wall of the head portion of the electrospinning head body is of a cone shape, and the diameter of the cone gradually decreases outwards. The spray tube electrospinning head can increase the forming speed of a Taylor cone, improve the velocity of a solution when the solution passes through the spray tube electrospinning head, and is better in electric field directivity.

The invention discloses a device for manufacturing patterned graphene through laser-induced deposition, and relates to the field of graphene. The device comprises an electrospinning direct-write precursor platform, a laser-induced graphene platform and a deposition graphene receiving platform, wherein the electrospinning direct-write precursor platform is provided with an injection pump, an injector and a direct current power supply; the laser-induced graphene platform is provided with a CO2 laser and an inert gas protection system; the deposition graphene receiving platform is provided with a collection plate and a two-dimensional motion platform; the injector is connected with the injection pump, the direct current power supply provides power for the injector, the light beam of the CO2 laser is focused on the Taylor cone outflux of the injector, the collection plate is arranged on the two-dimensional motion platform and positioned below the Taylor cone outflux of the injector, and the inert gas protection system provides inert gas protection for the deposition graphene receiving platform. The device of the laser-induced deposition manufacturing patterned graphene has the advantages of being continuable in manufacturing, low in cost and low in environment requirement and equipment requirement.

The invention provides a device and method for preparing gate electrodes of a solar cell. The device comprises a silver paste supplying device, a nozzle height adjusting module, a nozzle, a programmable-control high-voltage generator, an adsorption platform, a motion platform and a control unit. The method comprises the steps of placing a solar substrate on the adsorption platform, and preparing the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, wherein the width of the second gate electrode is larger than that of the first gate electrode. The electric spinning direct writing process is utilized for printing the solar electrodes, an electric field is utilized for pulling silver paste in the nozzle to lines with the diameters smaller than the diameter of the nozzle, and the widths and the heights of the printed grid lines can be controlled by controlling the different voltages, the height of the nozzle and the feed speed of a substrate. The voltages affect the stability of a Taylor cone at a certain height, the height affects the heights of the printed grid lines mainly by affecting the degree of cure of the grid lines in the air, the larger the height is, the higher the printed grid lines become, the feed speed of the substrate mainly affects the widths of the printed grid lines, and the higher the speed is, the thinner the grid lines become.

Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed that analyze a biological or other fluid sample using an electrophoresis or other separation method and then emit the fluid sample with separated constituents using an electrohydrodynamic spray to form a Taylor cone and jet, without dispersion into droplets, onto a substrate that moves with respect to the emitter. Electrodes can be shared between the electrophoresis and electrospray elements, and an adjunct fluid can help draw the separated sample into the Taylor cone. A micro-machined capillary channel on a chip can supply multiple lines to a substrate.

The invention relates to an ultrasonic oscillation electrostatic spinning nozzle, which comprises a spinning nozzle and an ultrasonic processor, wherein the ultrasonic processor comprises an amplitude transformer, a transducer and a controller; the top of the amplitude transformer passes through the bottom of the spinning nozzle and is placed in the spinning nozzle; the bottom end of the amplitude transformer is connected with the transducer; the transducer is connected with the controller; and the spinning nozzle is of an open disc, and the spinning nozzle is provided with a binding post connected with a high-voltage positive electrode. The invention also relates to an electrostatic spinning method, which comprises the following steps of: adding spinning solution or melt into the spinning nozzle through an automatic transfusion device, keeping the liquid level of the injected spinning solution or melt higher than the horizontal plane of the top of the amplitude transformer, starting the controller and a high voltage, forming a Taylor cone through the spinning solution or melt under the action of ultrasonic oscillation, and upwards extracting the jet. The surface tension of the spinning solution or melt is overcome, multiple pieces of jet are formed, the yield of electrostatic spinning is increased, the spinning stability of the spinning nozzle is improved, and continuous and large-scale production of nano fibers can be realized.

An electrospray source useful for a variety of applications and including an emitter with a porous media flow distributor having a surface forming multiple Taylor cones. A casing about the porous media flow distributor controls the direction of a working fluid through the porous media. An extractor is at a potential different than the emitter for forming the Taylor cones. A guard electrode is disposed between the emitter and the extractor and is at or above the potential of the emitter for shaping the electric field formed between the emitter and the extractor.

The invention relates to an electrostatic spinning device and method for mass nanometer/micrometer fibers. The electrostatic spinning device is provided with a liquid storage tank with an opening in the top, a bubble generator, a high-voltage electrostatic generator and a negative electrode collecting device, wherein the bubble generator and the high-voltage electrostatic generator are in coupling connection with polymer fluid in the liquid storage tank, and the negative electrode collecting device is located above the opening of the liquid storage tank. The bubble generator comprises an air pump and an air guide pipe connected with the air pump, a plurality of airflow nozzles are arranged on the air guide pipe, and each airflow nozzle is located in the bottom inside the liquid storage tank or in the polymer fluid in the middle. According to the electrostatic spinning device and method for the mass nanometer/micrometer fibers, a large number of protrusions can be obtained through an air pump jet stream mode, then a large number of Taylor cones are obtained, and finally the mass nanometer/micrometer fibers are obtained. The electrostatic spinning device and method for the mass nanometer/micrometer fibers greatly improves production efficiency of nanometer/micrometer fiber electrostatic spinning, and enables the purpose of mass production or industrialization of the nanometer/micrometer fiber electrostatic spinning to be achieved.

The invention discloses the field of an analytical instrument, in particular to an instrument for ion generation of medical micromolecules and biological macromolecules. The instrument is provided with a hollow capillary emission needle and a launch emission support. The emission needle support forms a laminar flow gas flowing forwards around the emission needle to eliminate the capillary reverseflow effect of liquid flowing out from the hollow capillary emission needle outside a capillary, so that the liquid flows forwards. An inlet infused in the capillary in a vacuum mode I specially designed into an arc-shaped mechanism, so the speed of airflow at some position at any direction is zero, the position is just the outlet of the hollow capillary emission needle, therefore the stability of a Taylor cone of the top end of the point of the emission needle is ensured in the large flow range, and finally a stable ion flow is obtained. The instrument has the advantages of stable ion emission, high ion transmission efficiency and the like and can be widely applied to occasions of ion source preparation.