SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCAPROLACTONE NANOCOMPOSITE FIBER WITH TITANIUM DIOXIDE ADDITIVES
Abstract
Nanotechnology can control the atomic, molecular, and supramolecular levels of matter. As the size of a particle goes down to nano-size, materials exhibits good characteristics in terms of electronics, optic, thermal, magnetic and fotocatalysis properties. The nano composite fibers comprise of finely dispersed flakes of the second phase inorganic material with nylon or polyester type fiber forming polymers. Nano-fiber based materials obtained by the method of electrospining in the interest of the outstanding features has increased due to the common application areas of filtration, composites, medicine. In this research, we produced nano composites at 0.50 1, 2, and 4 % ratio using polycaprolactone (PCL) and titanium dioxide (TiO2). Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) were used to analyze titanium dioxide nano fibers.
Keywords
Electrospinning, Nanofiber, Polycaprolactone, Titanium Dioxide
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