Solution Blow Spinning Control of Morphology and Production Rate of Complex Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-x Nanowires

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that solution blow spinning (SBS) can produce complex superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-x nanowires at significantly higher rates than electrospinning, with controllable morphology influenced by injection rate.

Contribution

It introduces the use of SBS for high-rate production of superconducting nanowires and defines Ceramic Production Rate as a new metric for ceramic structure manufacturing.

Findings

SBS achieves 4.7 to 33 times higher production rates than electrospinning.

Morphology control is possible by adjusting polymer solution injection rate.

The study introduces the term Ceramic Production Rate for ceramic nanostructure manufacturing.

Abstract

The demand for nanostructured materials can increase exponentially due to the miniaturization of devices and their potential application in different areas, such as electronic and medicine. Therefore, high production rates are essential for making nanomaterials commercially available. When electrospinning (ES) and solution blow spinning (SBS) are employed for producing ceramic nanostructures, the solution injection rate can influence the morphology without, however, supply the real ceramic production rate. In this work, complex superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-x wires were prepared by using the SBS technique. We also show that the morphology can be controlled by varying the injection rate of the polymer solution and the production rate is 4.7 to 33 times higher than the rates of equivalent ceramics produced by ES. Additionally, we also suggest the term Ceramic Production Rate to refer to the production rate of ceramic structures.