Thermally Tunable Surface Wettability of Electrospun Fiber Mats: Polystyrene/Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Blended versus Crosslinked Poly[(N-isopropylacrylamide)-co-(methacrylic acid)]
- Title
- Thermally Tunable Surface Wettability of Electrospun Fiber Mats: Polystyrene/Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Blended versus Crosslinked Poly[(N-isopropylacrylamide)-co-(methacrylic acid)]
- Author
- Wolfgang M. Sigmund
- Keywords
- electrospinning; fibers; responsive wettability; stimuli-sensitive polymers; surface chemistry
- Issue Date
- 2011-11
- Publisher
- WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
- Citation
- Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2011, 32(21), P.1716-1721
- Abstract
- This work reports on thermally tunable surface wettability of electrospun fiber mats of: polystyrene (PS)/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) blended (bl-PS/PNIPA) and crosslinked poly[(N-isopropylacrylamide)-co-[methacrylic acid)] (PNIPAMAA) (xl-NIPAMAA). Both the bl-PS/PNIPA and xl-PNIPAMAA fiber mats demonstrate reversibly switchable surface wettability, with the bl-PS/PNIPA fiber mats approaching superhydrophobic >= 150 degrees and superhydrophilic contact angle (CA) values at extreme temperatures. Weight loss studies carried out at 10 degrees C indicate that the crosslinked PNIPAMAA fiber mats had better structural integrity than the bl-PS/PNIPA fiber mats. PNIPA surface chemistry and the Cassie-Baxter model were used to explain the mechanism behind the observed extreme wettability.
- URI
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/marc.201100373https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/72962
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
- DOI
- 10.1002/marc.201100373
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