TY - JOUR AU1 - Ozawa, Hiroyuki AU2 - Machmudah, Siti AU3 - Wahyudiono, AU4 - Kanda, Hideki AU5 - Goto, Motonobu AB - Res Chem Intermed (2018) 44:2215–2230 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-017-3224-9 Electrospinning of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) fibers containing metal oxide nanoparticles under dense CO 1 2 3 3 Hiroyuki Ozawa  · Siti Machmudah  · Wahyudiono  · Hideki Kanda  · Motonobu Goto Received: 23 August 2017 / Accepted: 4 December 2017 / Published online: 12 December 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2017 Abstract Electrospinning is an electrostatic process for formation of polymer fibers with nano/microscale diameter from solution. In this study, poly(vinyl pyr - rolidone) (PVP) dissolved at 4 wt% concentration in dichloromethane (DCM) con- taining titanium oxide (T iO ) nanoparticles was used as polymer feed solution for electrospinning under pressurized carbon dioxide (C O ) at temperature of 30  °C, pressure of 5 MPa, and applied voltage of 10–14 kV. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed that the PVP fibers electrospun with and without TiO nanoparticles exhibited the same morphology with hollow structure and average pore diameter of 2–7 μm. Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy revealed that the electro- spun PVP fibers had properties similar to the PVP starting material. X-ray photo - electron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed that the TiO nanoparticles were present in the residue after thermogravimetric (TG) analysis of electrospun fibers. Graphical Abstract SEM images of PVP with 25-nm TI - Electrospinning of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) fibers containing metal oxide nanoparticles under dense CO2 JF - Research on Chemical Intermediates DO - 10.1007/s11164-017-3224-9 DA - 2017-12-12 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/electrospinning-of-poly-vinyl-pyrrolidone-fibers-containing-metal-CH4KgmEhLh SP - 2215 EP - 2230 VL - 44 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -