PMID- 29027978
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20201001
IS  - 2079-4991 (Print)
IS  - 2079-4991 (Electronic)
IS  - 2079-4991 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 10
DP  - 2017 Oct 13
TI  - Feedback System Control Optimized Electrospinning for Fabrication of an Excellent 
      Superhydrophobic Surface.
LID - 10.3390/nano7100319 [doi]
LID - 319
AB  - Superhydrophobic surface, as a promising micro/nano material, has tremendous 
      applications in biological and artificial investigations. The 
      electrohydrodynamics (EHD) technique is a versatile and effective method for 
      fabricating micro- to nanoscale fibers and particles from a variety of materials. 
      A combination of critical parameters, such as mass fraction, ratio of N, 
      N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) to Tetrahydrofuran (THF), inner diameter of needle, 
      feed rate, receiving distance, applied voltage as well as temperature, during 
      electrospinning process, to determine the morphology of the electrospun 
      membranes, which in turn determines the superhydrophobic property of the 
      membrane. In this study, we applied a recently developed feedback system control 
      (FSC) scheme for rapid identification of the optimal combination of these 
      controllable parameters to fabricate superhydrophobic surface by one-step 
      electrospinning method without any further modification. Within five rounds of 
      experiments by testing totally forty-six data points, FSC scheme successfully 
      identified an optimal parameter combination that generated electrospun membranes 
      with a static water contact angle of 160 degrees or larger. Scanning electron 
      microscope (SEM) imaging indicates that the FSC optimized surface attains unique 
      morphology. The optimized setup introduced here therefore serves as a one-step, 
      straightforward, and economic approach to fabricate superhydrophobic surface with 
      electrospinning approach.
FAU - Yang, Jian
AU  - Yang J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6134-5457
AD  - Institute of Process Equipment, College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang 
      University, Hangzhou 310027, China. zdhjkz@zju.edu.cn.
FAU - Liu, Chuangui
AU  - Liu C
AD  - Institute of Process Equipment, College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang 
      University, Hangzhou 310027, China. liucg0982@163.com.
FAU - Wang, Boqian
AU  - Wang B
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3244-4450
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Institute for Personalized 
      Medicine, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 
      Shanghai 200030, China. wangboqian_723@163.com.
FAU - Ding, Xianting
AU  - Ding X
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Institute for Personalized 
      Medicine, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 
      Shanghai 200030, China. dingxianting@sjtu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20171013
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Nanomaterials (Basel)
JT  - Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101610216
PMC - PMC5666484
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - electrospinning
OT  - feedback system control (FSC)
OT  - optimization
OT  - superhydrophobic
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The founding sponsors had no role in 
      the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; 
      in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results.
EDAT- 2017/10/14 06:00
MHDA- 2017/10/14 06:01
PMCR- 2017/10/13
CRDT- 2017/10/14 06:00
PHST- 2017/08/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/09/30 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/10/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/10/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/10/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/10/14 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/10/13 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - nano7100319 [pii]
AID - nanomaterials-07-00319 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/nano7100319 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Nanomaterials (Basel). 2017 Oct 13;7(10):319. doi: 10.3390/nano7100319.