Parallel nanomanufacturing via electrohydrodynamic jetting from microfabricated externally-fed emitter arrays.

We report the design, fabrication, and characterization of planar arrays of externally-fed silicon electrospinning emitters for high-throughput generation of polymer nanofibers. Arrays with as many as 225 emitters and with emitter density as large as 100 emitters cm(-2) were characterized using a solution of dissolved PEO in water and ethanol. Devices with emitter density as high as 25 emitters cm(-2) deposit uniform imprints comprising fibers with diameters on the order of a few hundred nanometers.

Enhancing the tensile properties of continuous millimeter-scale carbon nanotube fibers by densification.

This work presents a study of the tensile mechanical properties of millimeter-long fibers comprising carbon nanotubes (CNTs). These CNT fibers are made of aligned, loosely packed parallel networks of CNTs that are grown in and harvested from CNT forests without drawing or spinning. Unlike typical CNT yarn, the present fibers contain a large fraction of CNTs that span the fibers' entire gauge length.