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Electrospinning poly(vinyl alcohol), which is an important water-soluble biopolymer, using an organic solvent, such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), is particularly important for applications such as the controlled release of drugs with poor solubility in water. Since the nature of the solvent can greatly influence the morphology of the nanofibers and hence their bio-applicability, the rheology and electrospinning behavior of PVA in DMSO were investigated and compared with those in water. The viscosity, storage modulus and elasticity were found to be higher for PVA solutions in DMSO than in water for the same concentration of PVA. However, the fiber diameter obtained from the PVA-DMSO system was significantly lower. Although a linear correlation between the fiber diameter and elasticity could be established for the two solvents, their slopes were different. In a further investigation, a single linear equation could be determined for the two systems to give the relationship between the diameter and the number of entanglements per chain, suggesting that elasticity arising from chain entanglements was the key factor governing the fiber diameter.
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Gupta, D., Jassal, M. & Agrawal, A.K. Atypical rheology and spinning behavior of poly(vinyl alcohol) in a nonaqueous solvent. Polym J 51, 883–894 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41428-019-0196-1
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