AUTHOR=Xu Guojie , Chen Mingyi , Gao Yufei , Chen Ying , Luo Zhifeng , Wang Han , Fan Jie , Luo Jie , Ou Weicheng , Zeng Jun , Zhu Ziming , Chen Rouxi 

TITLE=Gas-assisted electrospinning of high-performance ceramic fibers: Optimal design modelling and experimental results of the gas channel of the nozzle

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Materials

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2023.1113168

DOI=10.3389/fmats.2023.1113168

ISSN=2296-8016

ABSTRACT=<p>Electrospinning (ES) of ceramic fibers has mostly remained in the research level, which can be because of the hard process and parameters controlling the low rate of production. The yield of fiber production by solution blow spinning (SBS) is exciting but the production process is unstable due to the reverse flow phenomenon. In this paper, we prepared high-performance ceramic fibers by gas-assisted electrospinning (GES), which combined the advantages of ES and SBS. Also, comprehensive numerical and experimental analysis for nanofibers produced using GES are provided. The gas flow characteristics through different parameters' nozzle were investigated numerically using computational fluid dynamics and experimentally in a custom-built gas-assisted electrospinning setup to produce SiO<sub>2</sub> nanofibers.</p>