Highly flexible and tough concentric triaxial polystyrene fibers

Shaohua Jiang; Gaigai Duan; Eyal Zussman; Andreas Greiner; Seema Agarwal

doi:10.1021/am500837s

Highly flexible and tough concentric triaxial polystyrene fibers

Shaohua Jiang, Gaigai Duan, Eyal Zussman, Andreas Greiner, Seema Agarwal

Mechanical Engineering

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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A combination of appropriate reinforcing material and morphology led to the highly tough, flexible, and strong polystyrene fibers by electrospinning. Concentric fiber morphology with reinforcing elastomeric thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) sandwiched between the two layers of polystyrene made by a special nozzle (triaxial) showed toughness of >270 J g^-1 and 300% elongation without any cracks in comparison to toughness of <0.5 J g ^-1 and elongation at break of <5% of polystyrene single fibers. The concentric triaxial morphology showed great advantage in comparison to the coaxial structure. Toughness and elongation at break were 1376 and 628% higher, respectively, for triaxial morphology in comparison to the coaxial fibers because of the better interface from the sandwich structure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5918-5923
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	6
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/am500837s
State	Published - 23 Apr 2014

Keywords

1D composites
electrospinning
mechanical properties
tough
triaxial fibers

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General Materials Science

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Highly flexible and tough concentric triaxial polystyrene fibers

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