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ArticlePolymers2020

Tunable Wettability of Biodegradable Multilayer Sandwich-Structured Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes.

A K M Mashud Alam, Elena Ewaldz, Chunhui Xiang, Wangda Qu, Xianglan Bai

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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 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

A K M Mashud AlamDepartment of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3629-2669
Elena EwaldzSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Chunhui XiangDepartment of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8570-1863
Wangda QuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Xianglan BaiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Iowa State University · USGeorgia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This research aims to develop multilayer sandwich-structured electrospun nanofiber (ENF) membranes using biodegradable polymers. Hydrophilic regenerated cellulose (RC) and hydrophobic poly (lactic acid) (PLA)-based novel multilayer sandwich-structures were created by electrospinning on various copper collectors, including copper foil and 30-mesh copper gauzes, to modify the surface roughness for tunable wettability. Different collectors yielded various sizes and morphologies of the fabricated ENFs with different levels of surface roughness. Bead-free thicker fibers were collected on foil collectors. The surface roughness of the fine fibers collected on mesh collectors contributed to an increase in hydrophobicity. An RC-based triple-layered structure showed a contact angle of 48.2°, which is comparable to the contact angle of the single-layer cellulosic fabrics (47.0°). The polar shift of RC membranes on the wetting envelope is indicative of the possibility of tuning the wetting behavior by creating multilayer structures. Wettability can be tuned by creating multilayer sandwich structures consisting of RC and PLA. This study provides an important insight into the manipulation of the wetting behavior of polymeric ENFs in multilayer structures for applications including chemical protective clothing.

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poly (lactic acid)regenerated cellulosesurface energytunable wettabilitywetting envelope

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PMID32942521
PMCPMC7569968
OpenAlexW3085180933

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