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Université de Fribourg

Biologically inspired hierarchical design of nanocomposites based on poly(ethylene oxide) and cellulose nanofibers

Changsarn, Sutheerat ; Mendez, James D. ; Shanmuganathan, Kadhiravan ; Foster, E. Johan ; Weder, Christoph ; Supaphol, Pitt

In: Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2011, vol. 32, no. 17, p. 1367–1372

Attempts to create hierarchically structured, uniaxially oriented nanocomposites comprising cellulose nanowhiskers (CNWs), which promise anisotropic mechanical properties, are exceedingly rare. We report here the fabrication of uniaxially-oriented arrays of microfibers based on poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and CNWs by electrospinning. Compared with the neat PEO fibers, the incorporation of CNWs...