Formation Mechanism of Fibrous Web in the Solution Blowing Process

Guangwu Sun; Yudong Wang; Yinjiang Zhang; Wanli Han; Shanshan Shang

doi:10.1021/acsomega.2c00276

Formation Mechanism of Fibrous Web in the Solution Blowing Process

ACS Omega. 2022 Jun 8;7(24):20584-20595. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.2c00276. eCollection 2022 Jun 21.

Authors

Guangwu Sun^{1

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4}, Yudong Wang², Yinjiang Zhang⁵, Wanli Han⁶, Shanshan Shang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Haikou 571126, Hainan Province, P.R. China.
² College of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou 545006, P. R. China.
³ Jiangxi New Energy Technology Institute, Xinyu 338012, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China.
⁴ School of Textiles and Fashion, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China.
⁵ College of Textile and Apparel, Key Laboratory of Clean Dyeing and Finishing Technology of Zhejiang Province, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China.
⁶ Materials and Textile Engineering College, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing 314001, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.

Abstract

Solution blowing (SB) is a widely reported technology that can be used to fabricate fibers at the micro- and nanoscale. To reveal the fibrous web formation mechanism in SB, we improved our previous melt blowing (MB) model to predict fibrous web structures. Then, we fabricated two samples and simulated the same number of virtual samples in the computer to verify the model. Thereafter, we measured the structural parameters including the fiber diameter, fiber orientation, basis weight, and pore size. Our model provides a good prediction of the fiber orientation and basis weight. However, the predicted fiber diameter was slightly smaller than the measured diameter. The experimental pore size distribution was also different from that in the simulated results. The model provides a virtual fabrication process to reveal a fibrous web formation mechanism and finds a similar distribution of these structural parameters between SB and MB.