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Materials-Metals 2017
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November 16-17, 2017 Paris, France
13
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Annual Conference on
Materials Science, Metal and Manufacturing
Journal of Materials Science and Nanotechnology
Volume 1 Issue 2
Superhydrophobic micro-fibers synthesized from
hydrophilic PVAc polymer
C Elif Ozen Cansoy
and
Gokhan Acik
Piri Reis University, Turkey
I
n this study, super hydrophobic PVAc microfibers were
synthesized by utilizing electrospinning process. Various
solution flow rates were applied to investigate the effect of flow
rate on fiber morphologies and surface wettability. The results
showed that, increase in flow rate also caused an increase in
fiber diameters and water drop contact angles. Depending
on fiber diameters, surface wettability was also changed;
increase in diameter caused an increase in contact angle
values and especially at 5 ml/h flow rates, super hydrophobic
fibers surfaces were successfully synthesized. Contact angle
hysteresis (CAH) values of fibers were changing due to the
variation in fiber diameters and thus surface roughnesses.
CAH values of PVAc fibers showed a decrease with the
increase of water contact angles, and these results were in
concordance with the literature values.
ecansoy@pirireis.edu.trMater Sci Nanotechnol 2017, 1:2