Projekt

Coelectrospinning provides a novel highly versatile approach towards composite fibers with diameters ranging from a few 100 nm down to a few 10 nm. A strong electric field is applied for this purpose to two solutions of different chemical composition emerging from two concentric dies. Depending on the composition of the solution polymer/ polymer core/shell fibers, hollow fibers or compartment fibers become accessible. Coelectrospinning of polymers and functional materials such as drugs, pheromones, proteins, chromophores etc. will be consid- ered in detail. One major aim of the project is to investigate in which way the morphology of the composite fibers depends on solution parameters such as viscosity, surface tension and conductivity and to model the co-electrospinning process as a function of such parameters.

• Prof. em. Dr. Joachim H. Wendorff

  Universität Marburg
  FB Chemie
  Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Kernchemie
  und Makromolekulare Chemie
  Marburg
  

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Greiner

  Universität Marburg
  Fachbereich Chemie
  Makromolekulare Chemie
  Marburg
  

• Prof. Dr. Alexander Yarin

  University of Illinois at Chicago
  Department of Mechanical and Industrial
  Engineering
  Chicago, IL
  USA
  

• Prof. Dr. Eyal Zussman

  Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
  Haifa
  Israel