Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber Membranes for Filtration of Nanoparticles from Water

Table 1

Process parameters used for the electrospinning of solutions C-1 to C-5 and the average diameters of the PAN nanofibers and CNF mats.

Solution code	PAN	Feed rate	Voltage	Distance	Applied electric field	PAN nanofibers diameter	Carbon nanofibers diameter
	(wt.%)	(mL/h)	(kV)	(cm)	(kV/cm)	(nm)	(nm)
C-1	4	2	30	7	4.2	96 ± 24	—
C-2	6	2	30	10	3.0	189 ± 47	126 ± 19
C-3	8	2	29	13	2.2	282 ± 51	184 ± 31
C-4	10	2	29	15	1.9	351 ± 78	249 ± 24
C-5	12	2	27	16	1.7	620 ± 39	554 ± 107