date:Mar 28, 2019
e. Nobody had been able to electrospin pure starch fibers before. But we figured out a way to do that using this wet electrospinning technique.
The study has been recently published in Food Hydrocolloids, the researchers built an inexpensive electrospinning device partially using the popular children's toy Lego.
The reason we chose Lego is we're going to have water and ethanol in there and we don't want the device to be conductive, continues Ziegler. The plastic was perfect.
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