Automated electrospinning system

Abstract

The paper presents the architecture and the design of an automated multi-nozzle spinnerettes electrospinning system based on a distributed communication network. The system is aimed for mass production of microwires from polymer liquid solutions. It consists of several building blocks: the control unit, the high voltage power supply, several spinnerette driving units, two scanning units, two positioning units, the target unit and the ambient control unit. All these units are connected together via RS485 communication network, which has as master node the control unit. The whole system can be remote controlled via host PC using a LabView based virtual instrument. In the paper, the hardware architecture and the software are described.