Joint Simulation of Electrospinning Trajectory

doi:10.11901/1005.3093.2016.641

Chinese Journal of Materials Research

2018, Vol. 32

Issue (2): 127-135 DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2016.641

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Joint Simulation of Electrospinning Trajectory

Zhenghua LIU¹, Jing WANG¹(

), Haiying DU^1,², Huisheng WANG¹, Xiaogan LI¹, Xiaofeng WANG³

1 Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China
2 College of Electromechanical & Information Engineering, Dalian Nationalities University, Dalian 116605, China;
3 School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124000, China

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Zhenghua LIU, Jing WANG, Haiying DU, Huisheng WANG, Xiaogan LI, Xiaofeng WANG. Joint Simulation of Electrospinning Trajectory. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2018, 32(2): 127-135.

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Abstract

Electrospinning is a widely used technique to synthesis nanofiber materials. In order to further study the electrospinning process, software simulation method was introduced in many reports. There are two kinds of software, and each of them has its advantage: Software Matlab is good in mathematical computing, and COMSOL Multiphysics can perfom accurate calculation for complicated electric fields. However, the relevant discription for electric fields in Matlab simulation was inacurate. A new method of joint simulation combining Matlab and COMSOL softwares together was used in this report: In the Matlab simulation process, the electric field equation was replaced by COMSOL calculation results. Compared with the Matlab simulation results, the joint simulation results are much close to actual conditions. This method also overcame the inconvenience (incapability) of electric field description in Matlab simulation and provided a solution to simulate fiber trajectories in complicated electric fields, such as parallel or circular auxiliary electrodes, respectively. The joint simulations were carried out for the electrospinning with one and two nozzles respectively. The electrospinning experiments prove that the joint simulation can predict fairly well the experiment results.

Key words: material synthesis and processing technology electrospinning trajectory joint simulation Matlab COMSOL multiphysics

Received: 02 November 2016

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Fund: Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61574025, 61501081, 61474012 & 51602035)

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Fig.1 Schematic diagram of electrostatic spinning device (a) and the simulation trajectory based on Matlab (b)

Fig.2 Electrostatic spinning device with single needle: (a) Grid and (b) Electric field distribution of yz-plane

Fig.3 Local amplification of simulation trajectory: (a) Matlab simulation and (b) Joint simulation

Fig.4 The picture of electrospinning trajectory by Reneker^[14]

Fig.5 With circular auxiliary electrode: (a) Electrostatic spinning device and (b) Electric field distribution of yz-plane

Fig.6 Joint simulation trajectory with (a) and without (b) circular auxiliary electrode

Fig.7 Planform of the Joint simulation trajectory with (a) and without (b) circular auxiliary electrode

Fig.8 With parallel auxiliary electrodes: (a) Electrostatic spinning device, (b) Electric field distribution of xz-plane, (c) Electric field distribution of yz-plane

Fig.9 Joint simulation trajectory with parallel auxiliary electrodes: (a) Main view (b) Left view (c) Platform

Fig.10 Electrostatic spinning with parallel auxiliary electrodes. (a) Device;(b) and (c): Deposition patterns with and without parallel auxiliary electrodes, respectively

Fig.11 SEM images of prepared SnO₂ (a), In₂O₃ (b) and SnO₂/In₂O₃ (c) namofibers

Fig.12 The mathematical model schematic diagram of electrostatic spinning device with two nozzles of opposite polarities

Fig.13 Electrostatic spinning with two nozzles of opposite polarities: (a) Position of electrodes and collect plane and (b) Electric field distribution of yz-plane

Fig.14 Joint simulation trajectory of electrostatic spinning with two nozzles of opposite polarities: (a) Three-dimensional graph and (b) Platform

Fig.15 Picture of the electrostatic spinning device and the deposition of two kinds of the namofibers

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