Preparation of porous ultrafine PGA fibers via selective dissolution of electrospun PGA/PLA blend fibers

Young You, Ji Ho Youk, Sung Won Lee, Byung Moo Min, Seung Jin Lee, Won Ho Park

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Abstract

In order to prepare porous ultrafine poly(glycolic acid) (PGA) fibers, ultrafine PGA/poly(l-lactic acid) (PLA) blend fibers were electrospun and then the PLA was removed via a selective dissolution technique with chloroform. PGA and PLA are immiscible and that a co-continuous phase morphology was developed during the electrospinning process. After extraction of the PLA, the resulting PGA fibers had three-dimensionally interconnected pores with a circular shape and the pore size distribution was very narrow.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)757-760
Number of pages4
JournalMaterials Letters
Volume60
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2006

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Korea) and by the SRC/ERC program of MOST/KOSEF (R11-2005-065).

Keywords

  • Electrospinning
  • Poly(glycolic acid)
  • Poly(l-lactic acid)
  • Porous ultrafine fibers
  • Selective dissolution

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