LAB SYSTEM

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NANOFIBER SPINNING EQUIPMENT

ELECTROSPINNING SET-UP

MODEL:

NANON-01A

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COLLECTOR C1 Plate Collector E1 SD Series

C2

Disc Collector

C3

Drum Collector

E2

NANON Series

C4

Mandrel Collector

SPINNERET S1 Clip Spinneret

E3

NF Series

S2

Tube-less Spinneret

S3

Co-axial Spinneret

NEW

S4

Heating Spinneret

NEW

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ELECTROSPINNING SETUP

SD series
Simple & High Cost Performance Simple & High Cost Performance

Electrospinning Setup NANOFIBER SAMPLE MECC CO.,LTD.

SD

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15kV

1,000

10m

D series is the most simple electrospinning equipments. This series would be suitable for customers who need fiber samples with small amounts or freely customize the equipment.

Major Features
High Cost Performance
The basic price is ????. You can obtain nanofiber samples with low losts.

Simple
The equipment has only minimum functions to electrospin nanofibers.

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ELECTROSPINNING SETUP

NANON Series
Powerful Spinning Equipment for Nanofibers R&D !! Powerful Spinning Equipment for Nanofibers R&D !!
Electrospinning equipment is developed by collaboration with Kyoto Institute of Technology! ! Electrospinning equipment is developed by collaboration with Kyoto Institute of Technology!

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NANOFIBER SAMPLE

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10kV

1,000

10m

Electrospinning Setup

NANON-01A NANON-

ANON is standard type of electrospinning equipment. This series are popular with researchers who has a lot of experience on using nanofiber equipments due to its convenience. This is very useful equipment to proceed sample works effectively.

Major Features
Convenient Operation
The equipment is easy to operate The equipment is well organized to avoid troublesome setting of spinning parameters. You can get a stable jet easily.

Equivalent to Various Nanofibers

A number of polymers and polymer/ceramic composite nanofibers can be created. Smooth and pored surface fibers, beaded fibers, and ultra-fine fibers can be created based on the users targeting application. (It is noted that a choice of fiber morphology is dependent on raw material.) Non-woven meshes, aligned nanofiber sheets and multi-layer nanofiber sheets can be created.

The Design That Considered A Safe Aspect

NANON electrospinning setup possesses a safety lock system to avoid electrical shock and an exhausting system to evacuate evaporated solvents and flying nanofibers.

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ELECTROSPINNING SETUP

NF series
Co-axial spinning, and High temperature spinning is available Co-axial spinning, and High temperature spinning is available
NANOFIBER SAMPLE

Advanced & High Quality !! Advanced & High Quality !!

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10kV

1,000

10m

Electrospinning Setup

NF-103 NF-

F series is high-grade nanofiber equipments which satisfy your various requirements. This would be suitable for customers who customize the equipment or require the advanced spinning technology.

Major Features
High Flexible Design
The equipment can be customized up to customers requirements. You can select various types of optional units based on your targets / objective.

Equivalent to Advanced Technology

Core-sheath fibers, hollow fibers, core-shell particles, hollow particles can be created by applying co-axial spinning unit. Spinning of heated solution is available by applying heating unit.

Equivalent to Various Nanofibers

A number of polymers and polymer/ceramic composite nanofibers can be created. Smooth and pored surface fibers, beaded fibers, and ultra-fine fibers can be created based on the users targeting application. (It is noted that a choice of fiber morphology is dependent on raw material.) Non-woven meshes, aligned nanofiber sheets and multi-layer nanofiber sheets can be created.

The Design That Considered A Safe Aspect

As well as NANON series, NF series possess a safety lock system to avoid electrical shock and an exhausting system to evacuate evaporated solvents and flying nanofibers.

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Spinneret Option

CLIP SPINNERET
This Standard Spinneret is Easy to Handle.
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series, NANON Series, SD Series

Tubing Metal Connector nozzle

Clip Spinneret

ex. setting setting

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

Major Features
Easy Handling
- Easily washed Only metal connector should be washed. It can be easily washed by putting in the bottle with solvents. - Easy setting For each spinning, a set of nozzle, metal connector, tubing and syringe is required to attach or detach to the clip spinneret. You do not need to detach or setting the clip spinneret so that you can make samples effectively. The clip spinneret is useful tool to make nanofibers samples from various types of solutions in a shot time.

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Spinneret Option

TUBE-LESS SPINNERET TUBE-LESS

The Spinneret for Spinning Small Amounts of Solution.
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series, NANON Series, SD Series

Major Features
Minimize waste of solution
The syringe can be directly attached to the spinneret. No changes on hardware of equipments are required to used this spinneret. Various types of solutions can be electrospun in a short time.

Tube-less Spinneret

This spinneret enhance efficiency of experimental works.

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

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Spinneret Option

NEW

CO-AXIAL SPINNERET CO-AXIAL

The Spinneret for Creating Core/Sheath, Hollow Fibers, Core/Shell, Hollow Particles.
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series

Hollow fiber

Core-sheath fiber

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Samples obtained by Kent (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kotakis Laboratory)

Co-axial Spinneret

(Sample

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

Major Features
Creation of Functional Fibers
Hollow fibers / particles can be created. Core/Sheath fibers and Core/Shell particles can be created. The material which shows low spinnability could be spun using this spinneret. The one with good spinnability and the another should be applied to core and sheath, respectively. Then, the fibers covered with the material which shows low spinnability could be obtained. The fibers mixed with functional agents could be electrospun.

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Spinneret Option

NEW

HEATING SPINNERET
The spinneret for spinning from heated solutions.
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series

FIBER SAMPLE

FIBER SAMPLE

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Heating Spinneret

(Sample

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

Major Features
Electrospinning of Heated Solution is Available.
Spinning of solution heated up to 200 is available. You can spin materials which dissolve in solvents at high temperature.

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Collector Option

Plate Collector
Useful for optimization of spinning conditions Useful for optimization of spinning conditions creation of a small amount of sample creation of a small amount of sample
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series, NANON Series, SD Series

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Nanofiber Sample

15kV

1,000

10m

Plate Collector

(Sample)

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

Major Features
Useful collector for optimization - suitable for making random mesh Collection Area: less than 370cm2 (corresponding to a piece of A5)

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Collector Option

Disc Collector
Suitable for Suitable for creation of highly aligned fiber sheet creation of highly aligned fiber sheet fiber bundle fiber bundle
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series, NANON Series, SD Series

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Nanofiber Sample

Disc Collector

(Sample)

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

Major Features
Creation of highly aligned fiber sheet - highly aligned fiber sheet can be obtained by the disc collector compared to the drum collector. Creation of fiber bundle - fiber bundle can be made by this collector. Disc circumference: about 600mm Rotation Speed : about 63 to 1,890 m/min. (100 to 3,000 rpm)

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Collector Option

Drum Collector
Useful for creation of aligned fiber sheet Useful for creation of aligned fiber sheet
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series, NANON Series, SD Series

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Nanofiber Sample

Nanofiber Sample

Drum Collector

(Sample)

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

Major Features
Creation of random mesh and aligned fiber sheet - The drum collector can make not only random mesh but also aligned fiber sheet. - Random mesh and aligned fiber sheet can be created at low and high rotation speed, respectively. Collection Area Rotation Speed : about 1,300cm2 (corresponding to 2 sheets of A4 papers) : about 63 to 1,890 m/min. (100 to 3,000 rpm)

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Collector Option

Mandrel Collector
Useful for creation of tubular nanofibrous assembly Useful for creation of tubular nanofibrous assembly
(Applicable Equipment) NF Series, NANON Series, SD Series

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Nanofiber Sample

Mandrel Collector

(Sample)

Spinning solution in syringe

Syringe Pump

Charge point

SPINNERET

Nanofiber jet

High Voltage Power Supplier

COLLECTOR
Ground point

Major Features
Creation of tubular nanofibrous assembly - rod with different diameter can be used as a mandrel. - possible to create tubular nanofibrous assembly with different inner diameter. Attachable Mandrel Diameter : 0.5 to 10 mm Length of nanofibrous assembly: 150 mm

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Others
High Voltage Power Supply

HVU-30P100 (maximum +30kV output) and HVU-30N100 (maximum -30kV output) is a low-priced high voltage power supply. The voltage value and the current value can be displayed. Compacy size and Rackmounting type of JIS standard. (490mm(H) X 350mm (D)X 480mm(W) The descending time of the voltage is early ( less than 0.5 seconds) when Power supply is OFF.

HVU-30P100/30N100 HVU-30P100/30N100

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY MODEL: HVU-30P100 MODEL: HVU-

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Introduction
Recently electrospinning has attracted a great deal of attention from many researchers as a superior method for producing nanofibers. The number of journal papers about electrospinning has been dramatically increased since 2000 and it is already over 400 per year. It is expected that R&D works on electrospinning would be more active in the world. In such new and growing field, manufacturers of electrospinning equipments have important roles to facilitate R&D works. MECC started nanofiber projects in 2006 and have developed electrospinning setups based on the below concepts. << MECC concepts for development of electrospinning equipments >> possible to control various morphologies high reproducibility possible to spin a wide range of materials into nanofibers high flexible & safety design
No. of journal papers about electrospinning.
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Development of Electrospinning Setup Development of Electrospinning Setup

These NF, NANON and SD series have various functions to satisfy a broad range of users requirements.
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It is introduced that nanofiber assemblies with various morphologies can be fabricated by using different types of collectors. On the contrary, fiber morphologies are dependent on the design of spinnerets.
CoCo-axial Spinneret

SD series
Simple & Simple & High Cost Performance High Cost Performance

NANON series Convenient Operation

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NF series High Flexible Design & Equivalent to Advanced Technology

NF is a high standard model and responsible to advanced requirements such as co-axial spinning, heating / meltelectrospinning. NANON is a basic model and hot seller. SD is simply designed and suitable for beginner and simple experiments.

Edging of core component

Core : Nylon / Sheath: Silk

Core : PEO / Sheath: Colla gen

Core : Gelatin / Sheath: PCL

Core-sheath and hollow fibers are spinnable by co-axial spinneret.

Edging of sheath component

PMMA

There are some polymers which can not be electrospun into core-sheath and hollow fibers are spinnable by co-axial spinneret.

UltraUltra-fine fibers

The polymer which is spinnable is applied to core component, while the polymer which is not spinnable is applied to sheath component. Then the mixture of two components is electrospin into fiber shape. It should be noted that the core-sheath fiber show the same performance as the sheath component. Ultra-fine nanofiber can be obtained by edging sheath component. This is useful technique for spinning of conductive polymer since it is difficult to make fiber with small diameter from the conductive polymer .

- Contorl of Various Morphologies As for controlling of morphologies, design of spinnerets and collectors are very important. All electrospinning equipments accept 5 types of collectors such as plate, rotating disc, drum, mandrel, and variable polar collectors. Each collector can be replaced with other one. Users can select the suitable collector up to their requirements.
- useful to finalize spinning conditions - suitable for creation of nanofiber sample with small dimension. Plate collector Random fibers - useful for fabrication of fiber bundles - possible to make highly aligned fibers Bundle Aligned fibers - possible to prepare single nanofibers

- Improvement of Reproducibility The reproducibility is highly dependent on not only solution conditions but also temperature and humidity in the spinning Rapid chamber. The morphologies Solvent Charge Evaporation Loss of nanofiber samples are variable at different Humidity temperature and humidity. Temperature and humidity are often changed even during electrospinning. The environmental condition should be maintained to get uniform fiber morphologies. In our equipment, the variation of temperature and humidity level is minimized by supplying air / gas with optimized conditions into the spinning chamber.
1500 Fiber Diameter (nm) 1000
Flat Fibers Relativ e Humidity Range for Fabrication uni for m circular Fiber Beaded Fibers

500

48%

85%

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30

40

50

60

70

80

90

Humidity (%)

- Creation of Nanofibers from a Broad Range of Materials Heating / Melt-Electrospinning

Although most of polymers are dissolved into solvent at room temperature, some of them are not dissolved without heating. As a target of spinning of such polymers, there have been attempts to electrospinning of heated solution or melted polymers. In MECC, high frequency induction heating is used to heat solution up. It is possible to heat syringe and solution without contacts between heater and syringe / solution so that no electrical current go through heater from solution. Therefore, the safety design can be provided. A unit of high frequency induction heating is able to fit on NF series. The heating unit can be exchanged with other type of spinneret by users. Cellulose, polypropylene and polyethylene were already electrospun by using the heating unit.

Disc collector

Single nanofiber

- useful to get large nanofiber samples (corresponding to 2 pieces of A4 papers) - possible to fabricate random fiber mesh at low take-up velocity aligned fiber sheet at high take-up velocity
The unit of high frequency induction heating.

Drum collector

Random fibers

Aligned fibers

Mandrel collector

Nanofiber Tubes

- useful to make tube-like nanofiber assemblies

Variable polar collector Single nanofiber

useful to prepare the required number of single nanofibers

Electrospun PP fibers.

- Recent Activities Fabrication of laminated aligned nanofiber sheets is also available by the drum collector.
Laminated aligned nanofiber sheet (orientation angle: 45/0/+45. Electrospun fiber sheet with silk-like aspect.

Mass Production of Nanofibers

There are some attempts for mass production of nanofibers. As for the way of mass production of nanofibers, application of multi nozzles is one of major ways, while the way by nozzles have been also reported. In MECC, mass production of nanofibers is managed without using nozzles. << Features of our technique >> easy to make the shift from the spinning by nozzle to ours applicable to our lab-scale equipment possible to spin both water- and organic solvent based-solutions

In the case that morphologies of fibers and their assembly are well controlled, electrospun fiber sheets show silk-like aspect

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