Nanoparticulate fiber solution, its fabrication process, and nanoparticulate fiber membrane filter
AssigneeNational Institute for Materials Science
InventorsIzumi Ichinose, Sadaki Samitsu, Qifeng Wang
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AssigneeNational Institute for Materials Science
InventorsIzumi Ichinose, Sadaki Samitsu, Qifeng Wang
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Objects of the invention are to provide a solution in which polymer nanofibers are highly dispersed without undergoing gelation and precipitation, its fabrication process, and a polymer nanofiber membrane filter. Those objects are achievable by use of the nano-particulate fiber solution in which the nanoparticulate fibers 30 are dispersed in the poor solvent 42, wherein the nanoparticulate fibers each comprise an elongated segment in which a plurality of nanoparticles 11 are linked together and elongated, and a branching segment in which the elongated segment is branched off, and the polymer molecules are entangled up and aggregated with the molecule of the poor solvent 42 held between said polymer molecules. The polymer used herein should preferably have any one substituent of a hydroxyl group, an amino group or a fluoro group, as shown in FIG. 1.
A nanoparticulate fiber solution having nanoparticulate fibers dispersed in a poor solvent, characterized in that said nanoparticulate fibers each comprise an elongated segment where a plurality of nanoparticles are linked together and elongated, and a branching segment where said elongated segment is branched off, wherein:
A nanoparticulate fiber membrane filter comprising nanoparticulate fibers each comprising an elongated segment where a plurality of nanoparticles are linked together and elongated, and a branching segment where said elongated segment is branched off, characterized in that networked polymer nanoparticles of 1 nanometer to 100 nanometers inclusive in diameter are laminated together in a filter cake form of 50 nanometers to 1,000 nanometers inclusive in thickness.
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