TY - JOUR
T1 - Near-field electrospinning on nonconductive substrates using AC fields
AU - Martinez-Prieto, Nicolas
AU - Ehmann, Kornel
AU - Cao, Jian
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper would not have been possible without the support of the National Science Foundation Grant CMMI-1404489.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Near-field electrospinning (NFES) is a micro-additive manufacturing technique that uses DC electric fields to continuously print micro- and nanofibers onto moving collectors. Traditionally, NFES was limited to printing on conductive and semiconductor substrates because of the charged nature of fibers. Here, printing on nonconductive substrates is achieved using AC electric fields which produce fibers with zero net charge that have reduced electrostatic interactions with the substrate. Furthermore, the process enables the patterning of complex patterns on soft elastomers and rigid plastics for planar and cylindrical substrates, which will lead to applications in flexible electronics and structured surface coatings.
AB - Near-field electrospinning (NFES) is a micro-additive manufacturing technique that uses DC electric fields to continuously print micro- and nanofibers onto moving collectors. Traditionally, NFES was limited to printing on conductive and semiconductor substrates because of the charged nature of fibers. Here, printing on nonconductive substrates is achieved using AC electric fields which produce fibers with zero net charge that have reduced electrostatic interactions with the substrate. Furthermore, the process enables the patterning of complex patterns on soft elastomers and rigid plastics for planar and cylindrical substrates, which will lead to applications in flexible electronics and structured surface coatings.
KW - Additive manufacturing
KW - Near-field electrospinning
KW - Polymer
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procir.2020.04.157
DO - 10.1016/j.procir.2020.04.157
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85092435104
VL - 93
SP - 120
EP - 124
JO - Procedia CIRP
JF - Procedia CIRP
SN - 2212-8271
T2 - 53rd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CMS 2020
Y2 - 1 July 2020 through 3 July 2020
ER -