TY - JOUR
T1 - Air Permeability and Moisture Management Properties of Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes
AU - Vinod Kadam, Amit Jadhav, Rajkishore Nayak, Lijing Wang & Rajiv Padhye
JO - Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics
VL - 3
SP - 167
EP - 176
PY - 2016
DA - 2016/09
SN - 9
DO - http://doi.org/10.3993/jfbim00243
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jfbi/10600.html
KW - Electrospinning
KW - Air Permeability
KW - Moisture Management
KW - Porosity
KW - Nanofiber Membrane
AB - Recently, electrospun nanofiber membranes (ENMs) have been received an increased attention in personal
protective clothing owing to their excellent filtration efficiency and low basis weight as filtering materials.
However, high resistance to air flow is a major drawback of ENMs which in turn effect on comfort. In
addition, comfort properties such as moisture management of ENMs need to be evaluated for practical
applications. It is argued that air permeability and moisture management influenced by selection of
electrospinning process parameters. This research studied the effect of collector speed and deposition
time on the air permeability of ENMs. Polyacrylonitrile nanofibers that had the diameter in the range
of 291--877 nm were fabricated. The deposition time significantly influenced air permeability, unlike
collector speed. Hence a short deposition time is desirable. A good correlation was found between the
theoretical porosity and experimental air permeability of ENM. Furthermore, it was found that moisture
management properties of ENM require improvements for personal protective clothing.