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ArticlePolymers2020

Melt-Electrospun Polyethylene Nanofiber Obtained from Polyethylene/Polyvinyl Butyral Blend Film.

Mohammad Zakaria, Kanta Shibahara, Koji Nakane

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Article in Polymers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Upcycling Waste Low-Density Polyethylene into Highly Crystalline Graphite.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  4. Formation of UHMWPE Nanofibers during Solid-State Deformation.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Mohammad ZakariaFrontier Fiber Technology and Science, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7494-0180
Kanta ShibaharaFrontier Fiber Technology and Science, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan.
Koji NakaneFrontier Fiber Technology and Science, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2338-9587
University of Fukui · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We prepared low-density polyethylene (LDPE) nanofiber, a few hundred nanometers in diameter, using polyvinyl butyral (PVB) and a laser melt-electrospinning (M-ESP) device. We blended PVB with LDPE via an internal melt mixer, removed the PVB after M-ESP by ethanol treatment, and studied the influence of PVB on fiber diameter. A substantial diameter reduction with improved crystallinity of LDPE fiber was observed with increased PVB content in the blend. PVB inclusion also increased the polarity of the LDPE/PVB blend, resulting in better spinnability. The removal of PVB from LDPE/PVB blend fiber caused a massive drop in the LDPE fiber diameter, due to fiber splitting, particularly in PVB-rich samples. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy of fibers confirmed that the prepared nanofiber was the same as pure LDPE fiber.

Indexed as

blendscrystallinitymelt-electrospinningnanofiberpolyethylene

Identifiers

PMID32079096
PMCPMC7077628
OpenAlexW3006085650

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