TY - JOUR
TI - Mechanism of nanofiber crimp
AU - Chen Rou-Xi
AU - Zhang Li
AU - Kong Hai-Yan
AU - He Ji-Huan
AU - Chen Yun
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2013
VL - 17
IS - 5
SP - 1473
EP - 1477
PT - Article
AB - Fabrication of crimped fibers has been caught much attention recently due to  remarkable improvement surface-to-volume ratio. The precise mechanism of the  fiber crimp is, however, rare and preliminary. This paper finds that  pulsation of fibers is the key factor for fiber crimp, and its configuration  (wave formation) corresponds to its nature frequency after solidification.  Crimping performance can be improved by temperature control of the uncrimped  fibers. In the paper, polylactide/ dimethylfomamide solution is fabricated  into crimped nanofibers by the bubble electrospinning, an approximate period-  amplitude relationship of the wave formation is obtained.