Fabrication of free-standing ordered fluorescent polymer nanofibres by electrospinning

J. R. Y. Stevenson; S. Lattante; P. Andre; M. Anni; G. A. Turnbull

doi:10.1063/1.4918660

Fabrication of free-standing ordered fluorescent polymer nanofibres by electrospinning

J. R. Y. Stevenson^*, S. Lattante, P. Andre, M. Anni, G. A. Turnbull

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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We demonstrate a static fabrication approach to make free-standing ordered arrays of fluorescent nanofibres through control of the transverse electrospinning field. The alignment and the density of the nanofibre arrays are optimised by careful design of both the source and collector electrode geometries which can control the transverse electric field over the full path of the jet. In doing so, we fabricate suspended fluorescent nanofibres with an aspect ratio of 10(4), and with a substantially increased density and order parameter (by a factor of similar to 10 compared to random deposition). Electrostatic modelling suggests that the field distribution of the component is the main contribution to the ordering between the plates. This method offers increased efficiency for the creation of ordered fibres collected over a small area and the characterisation of their photoluminescent properties.

Original language	English
Article number	173301
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	106
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918660
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2015

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Copyright 2015 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in: Fabrication of free-standing ordered fluorescent polymer nanofibres by electrospinning, Stevenson, J. R. Y., Lattante, S., André, P., Anni, M., and Turnbull, G. A., Applied Physics Letters, 106, 173301 (2015) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4918660
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