(376bg) Dependency of Shell Thickness of Smart Core-Shell Nanofibers for Water Capture and Release
AIChE Annual Meeting
2018
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting
Separations Division
Poster Session: Separations Division
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Dependency of Shell Thickness of Smart Core-Shell Nanofibers for Water Capture and Release
Soyoung Kim1 and Heechul Choi1*
1School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdan-gwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005 Republic of Korea
(E-mail: so0kim@gist.ac.kr, *hcchoi@gist.ac.kr)
ABSTRACT
In this research, we fabricated smart nanofibers, which have core-shell structure with thermoresponsive polymer and polyacrylonitrile by coaxial electrospinning technique for water capture and release in thermally simulated system. The microstructure and wettability of the fibers were controlled by using thermoresponsive polymer as the shell layer with varying shell thickness. The behavior of water capturing and releasing in the smart nanofibers was shown within the range of room temperature and the critical solution temperature of shell polymer. The smart nanofibers may have great potential as effective membranes for water harvesting applications.