Collection method for extra aligned nanofibers deposited by electrospinning

Electrospinning is a very promising nanotechnology method, mostly thanks to industrial scale up ability, relatively low purchase cost, and huge variability. Nevertheless, its principal disadvantage is the way in which the individual nanofibers are randomly deposited while being collected onto a collector after passing through the chaotic whipping phase. Present and future applications of nanomaterials will need their precise, ordered intrinsic structures, or may even require accurately determined anisotropic properties because of significant improvement of material properties such as mechanical, electronic, optical, etc. This work demonstrates a novel and advanced collector including a sliding board mechanism. The resulting nanofibrous materials obtain extremely high orientation order parameter (S > 97%). Other important advantages of this technological method are discussed here in more detail.