title: "Practical" Electrospinning of Biopolymers in Ionic Liquids.
abstract: To address the need to scale up technologies for electrospinning of biopolymers from ionic liquids to practical volumes, a setup for the multi-needle electrospinning of chitin using the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate, [C2mim]-[OAc], was designed, built, and demonstrated. Materials with controllable and high surface area were prepared at the nanoscale using ionic-liquid solutions of high-molecular-weight chitin extracted with the same ionic liquid directly from shrimp shells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3 A 0B8, Canada.|525 Solutions, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401, USA.
authors.forename: Julia L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Shamshina
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
authors.forename: Oleksandra
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zavgorodnya
authors.affiliation: CFM Group, LLC (USA), Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Bonner
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3 A 0B8, Canada.|525 Solutions, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401, USA.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gurau
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Di Nardo
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3 A 0B8, Canada.|Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
authors.forename: Robin D
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9843-7494
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D002686:Chitin / Q000737:chemistry*; D004560:Electricity; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry*; D008970:Molecular Weight
chemical_list: D007093:Imidazoles; D052578:Ionic Liquids; D002686:Chitin; C518739:1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium
keywords: biopolymers; chitin; electrospinning; ionic liquids; scale-up