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. 2020 Mar 24;12(3):721. doi: 10.3390/polym12030721

Table 1.

Material properties and filter media characteristics.

PAN PVDF PP1 PP2
Surface Energy (mJ/m2) [34,35,36,37,38,39] 44.0 ~ 54.1 25.5 ~ 36.5 27.2 ~ 32.6
εr (100 Hz, 1 MHz) [31,32] 4.2 8.4 ~ 8.9 2.2 ~ 2.6
Tg (°C) [40] 95.5 ~ 105 −50 ~ −20 −20 ~ −10
Tm (°C) [41] 300 ~ 320 ~ 175 ~ 173
Web type electrospun electrospun meltblown
Weight (g/m2) (n = 5) 2.4 (± 0.26) 5.1 ( ± 0.28) 47.3 (± 1.01) 28.9 (± 0.64)
Thickness (mm) (n = 5) 0.28 (± 0.02) 0.30 ( ± 0.03) 0.34 (± 0.02) 0.29 (± 0.02)
Fiber diameter (μm) (n = 30) 0.55 (± 0.13) 1.01 (± 0.36) 2.49 (± 0.87) 3.44 (± 1.71)

Notation. Tg: Glass transition temperature; Tm: Melting temperature; the surface energy: εr, Tg, and Tm are reference values [31,32,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41]; weight: Thickness and effective fiber diameter are measured values; ‘n’ is the number of samples tested or measured.