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SUBMITTER: Pirzada T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6648985 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pirzada Tahira T Farias Barbara V de BV Chu Hsiao Mei Annie HMA Khan Saad A SA
ACS omega 20190620 6
We present a facile approach to electrospin nanofibers of guar galactomannan by blending high- and low-molecular weights (MWs) of guar. We discover that while neither native high MW guar nor hydrolyzed low MW guar is electrospinnable on its own, their combination leads to synergism in producing defect-free nanofibers. Such an approach of fabricating nanofibers from blending multiple MWs of the same polymer may provide an easy route to produce nanofibers of biopolymers which are typically hard to ...[more]