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Sea-silk based nanofibers and their diameter prediction

Tian Dan (National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China)
Zhou Chan-Juan (National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China)
He Ji-Huan (National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China)

Diameter of sea-silk based nanofibers prepared by electrospinning is closely related to the concentrations of sea-silk solution. A mathematical model is established according the mass conservation law in fluid mechanics to predict the diameter of fibers, and the MATLsoftware is used to fit the experiment value. The results show that the fitted equation is quite accurate and efficient for estimating the diameter of fibers with different concentrations.

Keywords: electrospinning, sea-silk, mathematical model, nanofiber, fiber’s diameter