Electrospinning fabrication and characterization of poly(vinyl alcohol)/montmorillonite/silver hybrid nanofibers for antibacterial applications

Electrospinning Fabrication and Characterization of Water Soluble Polymer/Montmorillonite/Silver Nanocomposite Nanofibers out of Aqueous Solution

“…Fibers were collected on an electrically grounded aluminum foil placed at 15 cm vertical distance to the needle tip (Tip-Collector Distance, TCD). The above spinning conditions were found being the best condition to make PVA based nanofibers in our previous report Karim et al, 2009;Lee et al, 2009a;Lee et al, 2009b;Park et al, 2009;Park et al, 2010). Figure 5 demonstrates FE-SEM and TEM images of PVA, PVA/MMT and PVA/MMT/Ag nanofibers electrospun with 5 wt.% of MMT and 5 wt.% of Ag nanoparticles.…”

Antibacterial and morphological studies of electrospun silver-impregnated polyacrylonitrile nanofibre

“…It provides cheap, uncomplicated effective technology towards synthesizing nanofibre polymers with excellent properties such as flame retardation, enhanced dimensional stability, high porousity and specific surface area [1][2] . The high surface area property exhibited by nanofibre makes high degree of physical contact possible by creating sites for chemical reaction which is the basis for various modification of the nanofibre or trapping fine particle size material through physical entanglement thereby making filtration property of the material possible.…”

Facile and green fabrication of electrospun poly(vinyl alcohol) nanofibrous mats doped with narrowly dispersed silver nanoparticles

“…44 Moreover, the XRD peaks for the AgNPs are found at 38.2° and 44.6° of 2θ, which are indexed to the (111) and (200) planes with cubic symmetry, respectively. 45 This indicates that the as-prepared AgNPs crystals were stabilized in these samples due to the existence of PVA molecules, even for the ultrasmall ones.…”