Lithium Chloride in Creating a Nanofibrous Membrane with PES, PEO and A Cellulose Nanofiber Solution w/ Water?

Question

I'm doing summer research in polymer chemistry and my mentor recently decided to use lithium chloride in our solution which we later electrospin. He explained to me that lithium chloride is an inorganic salt. But how can adding inorganic salts to the solution yield better electrospinning properties for the overall solution, which as I've mentioned, contains PES, PEO and Cellulose Nanofibers as well as water.

Answer 1

Lithium chloride in water?  This is new ground.

LiCl/DMAc (Lithium chloride/N,N- Dimethyl acetamide) has been used to prepare microcrystalline cellulose fibers of high tensile strength.  The Lithium chloride is used to increase the osmotic pressure causing the nanostructures to swell.