Beeld: ICMS/CMEM, Eindhoven University of Technology

Festive fibers

Esther Thole2025-12-15T13:32:00+00:00

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To really appreciate the beauty of materials, you need to descend all the way down to the microscopic level. But once you’re there, a whole new world emerges filled with wonderous structures like these stunning fibers.

Here, we see a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) nanofibers that have been produced through electrospinning with tetrahydrofuran (THF) as the solvent. The PMMA beads resemble pendants or deflated balloons, which may be due to the fast evaporation of the solvent causing the structure to collapse.

Imaged with Scanning Electron Microscope Quanta3D at CMEM

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Beeld: ICMS/CMEM, Eindhoven University of Technology

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