Patent ID: 7585437

Claim:
A high capacity spinning method of producing nanofibres from a conductive polymer solution using electrostatic spinning in an electric field created by a potential difference in the space between a charged electrode and a counter electrode, the method comprising: providing a device for nanofibres storage, the device having a planar surface moving in a first direction; rotating the charged electrode having a body elongated in a direction of the rotational axis of the charged electrode, which rotational axis is perpendicular to the movement direction of the planar surface of the device for nanofibres storage and is parallel to the plane of this device for nanofibres storage; using a part of the circumference of the charged electrode near to the counter electrode as a spinning surface from which the nanofibres are formed from the conductive polymer solution by the action of the electric field; drifting the formed nanofibres toward the counter electrode; wherein an air stream acts on nanofibres moving in the space between the charged electrode and the counter electrode, which air stream is directed to promote drifting of the nanofibres away from the charged electrode; and collecting nanofibres in a layer on the planar surface of the device for nanofibres storage.