Electrospun nanofibers of a copolymer consisting of polyvinylalcohol that has been crosslinked with an inorganic polymer containing phosphorus, oxygen and nitrogen only.

Prof. Dr. Amir Fahmin

Materials Science
Faculty of Technology and Bionics
Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences
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Expertise
Nanofabrication and characterisation of functional nanostructured hybrid materials in different dimensions and length scales, these include the fabrication of hybrid building blocks based on organic/inorganic macromolecules template in-situ a varieties of inorganic moieties macroscopically alignment in 1D, 2D and 3D-structures.

Equipment
• Spin coater
• FT-IR, UV-Vis, fluorescence spectrophotometers
• Plasma etching
• Electrospinning with environment control
• Rheometer
• Scanning electron microscope (SEM) (including EDX analysis)
• Scanning Force Microscope (AFM)
• Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)
• Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA)
• Langmuir blodgett techniques
• Ellipsometer