TY - JOUR A1 - Noll, Jessica A1 - Leven, Felix A1 - Limberg, Johannes A1 - Weidmann, Christoph A1 - Ostermann, Rainer T1 - Electrospinning as a Fascinating Platform for Teaching Applied Polymer Science with Safe and Sustainable Experiments JF - Journal of Chemical Education N2 - Abstract Electrospinning has been widely used as a versatile technique to generate nanofibers of various materials. It is also helpful in teaching topics ranging from macromolecular chemistry to physics, safety, and sustainability at various levels of difficulty and student involvement. Simple and safe hands-on experiments/manual assays can be realized for less than 30 euros to demonstrate polymer viscosity and nanofiber alignment and solubility. Students can further study (super)hydrophobicity and even upcycle packaging waste into useful filter materials but also improve the electrospinning setup from a manual assay to an inexpensive Arduino-based 3D printed research platform. Alternatively, the latter can be used for teacher demonstrations of more challenging experiments that can also be easily done using a commercial syringe-pump. KW - Electrospinning KW - Polymer KW - Nanoscience KW - Sustainability KW - First-Year Undergraduate KW - Multidisciplinary KW - Demonstrations KW - Materials Science Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00504 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00504 VL - 2024 IS - Volume 101, Issue 9 SP - 3936 EP - 3943 PB - ACS Publications ER -