Polyethersulfone fiber webs are described.

Fiber structures and methods are described that incorporate a body of a micron fiber modified by the attachment of discrete length nano-fibers. Numerous of these modified fiber structures can be assembled into air filter media. Further augmentations of the modified fibers and media can be implemented to improve filtration characteristics.

A fabric material composite construction, for use as a filter means or media, characterized in that said construction comprises a combination of one or more nanofiber layers and a synthetic single-thread squarely knitted precision fabric.

A method of bonding a nanofiber web of nanofibers having diameters of between about 50 nanometers and about 2,000 nanometers onto a surface of a woven or nonwoven polymeric media having media fiber diameters of between about 700 nanometers and about 50,000 nanometers utilizes exposing the topmost layer of nanofibers and media fibers to a jet of heated air for a time and at a distance such that substantially only the topmost layer of fibers are bonded. The jet of heated air exits through a nozzle slot having a length of less than about 2 inches in the nanofiber web travel direction. The temperature of the heated air ranges from about 2 to about 10 times the nanofiber melting temperature, and heat air has a nozzle slot velocity of greater than about 500 feet/minute. An adhesive may bond the nanofibers, to a media, which may be bi-component fiber fibers.

Disclosed is a filter device for an additive manufacturing device for purifying a process gas of the additive manufacturing device, where the filter device for purifying a process gas during operation has at least one permanent filter, where the permanent filter has at least one coating as well as a method for manufacturing such a filter device. Further disclosed is an additive manufacturing device as well as a method for additive manufacturing.

The present disclosure provides an electrospinning method for fabricating a nanofiber air filter with a minimized pressure drop. The method comprises following steps: S1. dissolving a specified amount of powder polymer material in a solvent, and magnetically stirring a resulting solution; adding the solution to a syringe connected with a microneedle by a plastic tube, and pumping the solution by the syringe into an electrospinning machine; S2. allowing the electrospinning machine to work under a high voltage, such that the solution generates nanofibers; the nanofibers are interweaved to fabricate air filters for removing particles in air with a particle removal efficiency (V.sub.m, t.sub.n) and pressure drop P(V.sub.m, t.sub.n), V.sub.m is electrospinning voltage and t.sub.n is electrospinning time; and S3. finding optimal electrospinning voltage V.sub.opt and optimal electrospinning time t.sub.opt, such that an air filter fabricated by V.sub.opt and t.sub.opt can achieve target particle removal efficiency .sub.tar and minimized pressure drop P.sub.min.

A nanofiber filter may include a pleated base; and a nanofiber attached to the base by electrospinning. The nanofiber may be attached onto the base while the pleated base is in a flattened state. A method for manufacturing the nanofiber filter is also provided.

Disclosed are improved polymer materials. Also disclosed are fine fiber materials that can be made from the improved polymeric materials in the form of microfiber and nanofiber structures. The microfiber and nanofiber structures can be used in a variety of useful applications including the formation of filter materials.

An apparatus and method for preventing the contamination of sensitive accelerator surfaces and preventing deterioration of the accelerator field emission in a linear accelerator. The method includes providing a nanofilter at the inlet of the getter ion pumps connected to the beam line of the linear accelerator. The method includes providing a break in the inlet line, inserting a conflat flange at the break, and sandwiching the nanofilter between the two halves of the conflat flange. The nanofilter includes a maximum pore size of 3 nanometers, thereby preventing contaminants greater than 3 nanometers from flowing from the getter ion pump back to the accelerator system.

[Problem] To provide an air filter material in which spun bond nonwoven fabric and melt blown nonwoven fabric are laminated and integrated without reducing air permeability.

[Solution] Spun bond nonwoven fabric comprises, as constituting filament, conjugate polyester continuous filaments having a cross-sectional shape of a nearly Y4-like shape. The continuous filament is composed of a nearly V-shape portion 6 in the nearly Y4-like shape, formed from low melting point polyester, and the other nearly+shape portion 5 therein, formed from high melting point polyester. The continuous filaments are heat-bonded with each other by the low melting point polyester. The spun bond nonwoven fabric is bonded by a powder type or spider web type hot melt adhesive agent with the melt blown nonwoven fabric.