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Elastic and Stretchable Functional Fibers: A Review of Materials, Fabrication Methods, and Applications Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Mengxiao Chen, Zhe Wang, Kaiwei Li, Xiandi Wang, Lei Wei
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Electrospun Nanofibers Withstandable to High-Temperature Reactions: Synergistic Effect of Polymer Relaxation and Solvent Removal Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Guofang Hu, Xiaohua Zhang, Xiaoyan Liu, Jianyong Yu, Bin Ding
Fiber breakage is found to be a ubiquitous phenomenon during the thermal treatments for electrospun nanofibers, because of the presence of solvent molecules and unrelaxed assembly of polymer chains. Here a strengthening strategy is designed by introducing a pre-heating stage for the as-spun nanofibers. At a temperature above the polymer’s glass transition temperature, the chains can get sufficiently
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Multifunctional Fibroblasts Enhanced via Thermal and Freeze-Drying Post-treatments of Aligned Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Ya Li, Qian Shen, Jing Shen, Xinbo Ding, Tao Liu, Jihuan He, Chengyan Zhu, Ding Zhao, Jiadeng Zhu
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Long-term In Vivo Monitoring of Chemicals with Fiber Sensors Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Jiajia Wang, Liyuan Wang, Jianyou Feng, Chengqiang Tang, Xuemei Sun, Huisheng Peng
Long-term in vivo monitoring of chemicals with implanted sensors has received considerable interests over the past decades owing to their significant contributions in reflecting health conditions and assistance in diagnosing diseases. However, the widely explored chemical sensors outside the body fail to meet the requirements of in vivo applications. This perspective reviews main challenges, recent
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Carbon Dots-Doped Electrospun Fibers for Simultaneous Metal Ion Detection and Adsorption of Dyes Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Mário César A. de Oliveira, Elisângela G. de L. Oliveira, Indira C. B. Pires, Iuri C. M. Candido, Nikifor Rakov, Helinando P. de Oliveira, Yutao Xing, Glauco S. Maciel
The required treatment and monitoring of contaminants in wastewater reinforces the development of low-cost adsorbents/chemosensors, introducing advantages relative to the detection/removal of toxic metals and dyes. Herein, it is reported a two-step process of fabrication of fluorescent carbon dots via the hydrothermal treatment of amino acids for the following encapsulation in electrospun fibers. The
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Self-reinforcement of Light, Temperature-Resistant Silica Nanofibrous Aerogels with Tunable Mechanical Properties Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-09-18 Tao Huang, Yue Zhu, Jie Zhu, Hao Yu, Qinghua Zhang, Meifang Zhu
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Functional Electrospun Fibers for Local Therapy of Cancer Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Jingwen Zhao; Wenguo Cui
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Scalable Process to Develop Durable Conductive Cotton Fabric Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Md. Abdullah Al. Mamun, Md. Touhidul Islam, Md. Momtaz Islam, Kazi Sowrov, Md. Afzal Hossain, Dewan Murshed Ahmed, Hasan Shahariar
Developing a scalable process is critical to manufacture conductive fabric for commercial applications. This paper describes a scalable coating process that is compatible with existing industrial finishing processes of fabrics. In this process, the fabric is continuously dipped in water-based metal salt and the reducing agent solution to impart conductive particles on the fiber surface. After 10 consecutive
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Progress and Prospects of Transition Metal Sulfides for Sodium Storage Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Mingze Ma, Yu Yao, Ying Wu, Yan Yu
Sodium-ion battery (SIB), one of most promising battery technologies, offers an alternative low-cost solution for scalable energy storage. Developing advanced electrode materials with superior electrochemical performance is of great significance for SIBs. Transition metal sulfides that emerge as promising anode materials have advantageous features particularly for electrochemical redox reaction, including
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Superabsorbent Fibers for Comfortable Disposable Medical Protective Clothing Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Lin Yang; Hong Liu; Shuai Ding; Jiawei Wu; Yan Zhang; Zhongzhen Wang; Lili Wei; Mingwei Tian; Guangming Tao
Disposable medical protective clothing for 2019-nCoV mainly consists of stacked layers with nanopore films, polymer coated nonwoven fabrics and melt-blown nonwoven fabrics against anti-microbial and anti-liquid penetration. However, such structures lack moisture permeability and breathability leading to an uncomfortable, stuffy wearing experience. Here, we propose a novel medical protective clothing
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Electrospun Nanofibers-Based Face Masks Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Mike Tebyetekerwa; Zhen Xu; Shengyuan Yang; Seeram Ramakrishna
Textiles have proved to be very important materials to human beings since the time immemorial. And, fibers are the basic building units of these materials. In this perspective we substantiate the uniqueness and capability of nanofibers as active layers in face masks, to protect people against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This time-sensitive letter introduces the mechanisms based on which
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Perylene-Based Fluorescent Sizing Agent for Precise Evaluation of Permeability and Coating Property of Sizing Paste Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-06-24 Enqi Jin; Zhengke Wang; Qiaoling Hu; Manli Li; Jiugang Yuan
Warp sizing is considered as the most important process of weaving preparation in the textile field. The quality of sized warp yarns is directly determined by the permeation and coating of sizing paste into/on warp yarns. However, many significant flaws of the current method of permeability and coating property of sizing paste, such as low accuracy and narrow variety adaptability for sizing agents
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Facile and Low-Cost Fabrication of a Thread/Paper-Based Wearable System for Simultaneous Detection of Lactate and pH in Human Sweat Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Gang Xiao; Jing He; Yan Qiao; Feng Wang; Qingyou Xia; Xin Wang; Ling Yu; Zhisong Lu; Chang-Ming Li
Wearable devices have received tremendous interests in human sweat analysis in the past few years. However, the widely used polymeric substrates and the layer-by-layer stacking structures greatly influence the cost-efficiency, conformability and breathability of the devices, further hindering their practical applications. Herein, we report a facile and low-cost strategy for the fabrication of a skin-friendly
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Progress and Perspective of Antiviral Protective Material Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Jialiang Zhou; Zexu Hu; Fatemeh Zabihi; Zhigang Chen; Meifang Zhu
Public health events caused by viruses pose a significant risk to humans worldwide. From December 2019 till now, the rampant novel 2019 coronavirus (SAR-CoV-2) has hugely impacted China and over world. Regarding a commendable means of protection, mask technology is relatively mature, though most of the masks cannot effectively resist the viral infections. The key material of the mask is a non-woven
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Curcumin-Loaded Electrospun Fibers: Fluorescence and Antibacterial Activity Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Mário César Albuquerque de Oliveira; Fernando Antonio Gomes da Silva; Mateus Matiuzzi da Costa; Nikifor Rakov; Helinando Pequeno de Oliveira
The health benefits and sensing applications of curcumin-based systems depend on their prevailing photophysical and chemical properties at a specific environment—the characteristic low solubility of curcumin in water hinders high-dosage based applications. To circumvent this drawback, curcumin has been incorporated in hydrophobic environments in nanoscale. Herein, electrospun fibers of Eudragit L100
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Growth of AgBr/Ag 3 PO 4 Heterojunction on Chitosan Fibers for Degrading Organic Pollutants Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-05-26 Si-wei Xiong; Yan Yu; Pei Wang; Man Liu; Shao-hua Chen; Xian-ze Yin; Luo-xin Wang; Hua Wang
AbstractUsing Fiber as the based material for photocatalyst particles is favorable for their recovery, thereby avoiding the photocatalyst particles cause secondary pollution to water environment. In this work, the AgBr and Ag3PO4 photocatalyst particles were loaded onto the surface of chitosan fiber (CF) via chelation and in situ anion-exchange method. The photocatalytic results illustrated that the
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Peptide NGR Modified TiO 2 Nanofiber Substrate for Circulating Tumor Cells Capture Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Changchong Chen; Zeen Wu; Pi Ding; Na Sun; Hui Liu; Yong Chen; Zhili Wang; Renjun Pei
AbstractThe analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) allows a noninvasive method of “real-time liquid biopsy” from the blood samples of cancer patients for the diagnosis of early-stage cancer, prognosis, and monitoring therapeutic response. In this study, we develop a simple, inexpensive, and reliable method that utilizes a small molecule peptide, the asparagine-glycine-arginine (NGR), as a capture
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Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance of Surface-Modified TiO 2 Nanofibers with Rhodizonic Acid Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-04-23 Yijun Sun; Jackson Beja Mwandeje; Lodrick M. Wangatia; Fatemeh Zabihi; Jovan Nedeljković; Shengyuan Yang
The improvement of the photocatalytic performance of TiO2 nanofibers (NFs), prepared by electrospinning, is achieved by surface modification with the rhodizonic acid (RhA). The condensation reaction between hydroxyl groups from TiO2 NFs and RhA is accompanied by the red-shift of optical absorption due to interfacial charge transfer (ICT) complex formation. Crystal structure, morphology, and optical
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Electrospun Polyethylene Glycol/Polyvinyl Alcohol Composite Nanofibrous Membranes as Shape-Stabilized Solid–Solid Phase Change Materials Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-04-20 Junwen Huang; Houyong Yu; Somia Yassin Hussain Abdalkarim; Jaromir Marek; Jiri Militky; Yingzhan Li; Juming Yao
In this work, shape-stabilized solid-solid phase change materials (PCMs) were fabricated by simply electrospinning polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). Owing to the strong hydrogen bonds and entanglement between those molecular chains of PEG and PVA, PEG was packaged by PVA. The morphological structures, thermal stability and thermal energy storage properties of those fibers were
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High-Performance Natural Melanin/Poly(vinyl Alcohol-co-ethylene) Nanofibers/PA6 Fiber for Twisted and Coiled Fiber-Based Actuator Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Jiahui Chen; Esfandiar Pakdel; Wanjie Xie; Lu Sun; Mengyuan Xu; Qiongzhen Liu; Dong Wang
Twisted and coiled fiber-based actuators have drawn a great attention because their unique structure can provide mechanical response with the external thermal stimulus. Herein, an ultra-fast and light-weight twisted and coiled fiber-based actuator was designed based on a nature melanin/poly (vinyl alcohol-co-ethylene) (PVA-co-PE) nanofibers/PA6 composite fiber. In brief, PA6 was firstly coated by melanin/PVA-co-PE
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Electrospun Nanofibrous Materials for Wound Healing Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-03-21 Yuping Dong; Yuqi Zheng; Keyan Zhang; Yueming Yao; Lihuan Wang; Xiaoran Li; Jianyong Yu; Bin Ding
AbstractWound dressing materials which are capable of meeting the demands of accelerating wound closure and promoting wound healing process have being highly desired. Electrospun nanofibrous materials show great application potentials for wound healing owing to relatively large surface area, better mimicry of native extracellular matrix, adjustable waterproofness and breathability, and programmable
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Carbon Nanofibrous Sponge Made from Hydrothermally Generated Biochar and Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-03-21 Tao Xu; Xianfu Li; Zhipeng Liang; Vinod S. Amar; Runzhou Huang; Rajesh V. Shende; Hao Fong
AbstractThe objective of this study was to convert biochar, a byproduct generated from the hydrothermal process (in oxygen-limited environment) of biomass (e.g., corn stover), into value-added product. In specific, three-dimensional (3D) biochar-containing precursor sponge, which was made by using electrospun polymer nanofibers as skeleton support, was fabricated via an innovative approach. The weight
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Electrospinning Janus Type CoO x /C Nanofibers as Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-03-21 Xueyuan Cao; Jianping Deng; Kai Pan
Nanofibers with unique structures and multiple components have attracted more and more attention, which could combine multi-functions in one entity. Janus-type biphasic nanofibers with unique structure can be quickly obtained by electrospinning technology. We produced CoOx/C nanofibers with Janus structure by self-made side-by-side electrospinning spinneret, combined with electrospinning technology
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Strategies in Precursors and Post Treatments to Strengthen Carbon Nanofibers Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Guofang Hu; Xiaohua Zhang; Xiaoyan Liu; Jianyong Yu; Bin Ding
The limited mechanical properties of carbon nanofibers (CNFs) have become a severe problem hindering their wide range applications. The restricting issues are found in the whole fabrication process, including the precursor design, spinning and collection techniques, post treatments like stretching and aligning, and complicated thermal treatments involving stabilization and carbonization. Here we access
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Fabrication of Electrospun Levodopa-Carbidopa Fixed-Dose Combinations Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-03-02 Haitham Bukhary; Gareth R. Williams; Mine Orlu
AbstractWe report in this work coaxial electrospun fibers with potential applications in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The fibers comprise a fixed dose combination (FDC) containing the active ingredients levodopa and carbidopa, loaded in a fast dissolving polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) shell and an insoluble but swellable Eudragit® RLPO core. Under appropriate processing conditions we are able
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Effect of Thermal Annealing on Mid-Infrared Transmission in Semiconductor Alloy-Core Glass-Cladded Fibers Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-02-28 Mustafa Ordu; Jicheng Guo; Ahmet E. Akosman; Shyamsunder Erramilli; Siddharth Ramachandran; Soumendra N. Basu
We report a study investigating the effects of thermal annealing on the optical properties of Si-Ge alloy-core silica-cladded fibers. Low temperature fiber draw was performed with a laboratory-made draw tower at 1760 °C that minimizes impurity diffusion from cladding to the core. As a post-drawing process, Si–Ge core fibers were annealed in a box furnace to alter the core structure. Microstructural
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Coupling of Hierarchical Al 2 O 3 /TiO 2 Nanofibers into 3D Photothermal Aerogels Toward Simultaneous Water Evaporation and Purification Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-02-11 Xiangyu Meng; Wanlin Xu; Zhihui Li; Jianhui Yang; Jingwu Zhao; Xixi Zou; Yueming Sun; Yunqian Dai
Serious freshwater shortage and environmental pollution boost the rapid development of solar-driven water production. Although improved evaporation rate has achieved in recent years, undesirable impurity (e.g., pollutant components) can also be inevitably evaporated and collected as impurity in produced freshwater. This work reports new ultra-light three-dimensional (3D) aerogels assembled by hierarchical
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Electrospun Core–Shell Fibrous 2D Scaffold with Biocompatible Poly(Glycerol Sebacate) and Poly- l -Lactic Acid for Wound Healing Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-02-07 Xiaoping Yang; Lingfeng Li; Dongzhi Yang; Jun Nie; Guiping Ma
Biomimetic scaffolds made by synthetic materials are usually used to replace the natural tissues aimed at speeding up the skin regeneration. In this study, a flexible and cytocompatible poly(glycerol sebacate)@poly-l-lactic acid (PGS@PLLA) fibrous scaffold with a core–shell structure was fabricated by coaxial electrospinning, where the shell PLLA was used to be a skeleton with pores on the fibrous
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Chirality Transfer in Supramolecular Co-assembled Fibrous Material Enabling the Visual Recognition of Sucrose Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Nabila Mehwish; Xiaoqiu Dou; Changli Zhao; Chuanliang Feng; Qiang Fu
AbstractMolecular recognition of simple sugars is crucial due to their essential roles in most living organisms. However, it remains extremely challenging to achieve a visual recognition of simple sugars like sucrose in water media under physiological conditions. In this article, the visual recognition of sucrose is accomplished by a chiral supramolecular hydrogel formation through the co-assembly
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Electrospinning of ABS nanofibers and their high filtration performance Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-01-23 Shaohua Jiang; Holger Schmalz; Seema Agarwal; Andreas Greiner
Acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) is a commercial polymer for widely industrial applications due to its good mechanical and physical properties. However, there are only countable reports regarding its fibers from electrospinning. Comprehensive investigation on its optimized electrospinning parameters is missing. Herein, ABS fibers with different fiber diameters were produced by electrospinning
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Violin String Inspired Core-Sheath Silk/Steel Yarns for Wearable Triboelectric Nanogenerator Applications Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-01-22 Chao Ye; Quanfu Xu; Jing Ren; Shengjie Ling
AbstractTriboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has attracted considerable attention in wearable electronics and energy harvesting associated with human activities. Fiber/yarn electrodes are widely applied in the wearable TENG system, which remains a challenge to guarantee mechanical ductility and stable electrical functions during long-term use. Inspired by high quality violin strings core-sheath design
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Construction of n -TiO 2 / p -Ag 2 O Junction on Carbon Fiber Cloth with Vis–NIR Photoresponse as a Filter-Membrane-Shaped Photocatalyst Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-01-17 Gumila Duoerkun; Yan Zhang; Zhun Shi; Xiaofeng Shen; Wei Cao; Ting Liu; Jianshe Liu; Quanyuan Chen; Lisha Zhang
The development of effective and reusable photocatalysts with broad-spectra activity has attracted attention. Herein, we have constructed n-TiO2/p-Ag2O junction on carbon fiber (CF) cloth as an efficient and recyclable photocatalyst. With CF cloth as the substrate, TiO2 nanorods (length: 1–2 µm) are prepared by a hydrothermal process, and the in-situ growth of Ag2O nanoparticles (10–20 nm) is then
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Flexible and Reusable Non-woven Fabric Photodetector Based on Polypyrrole/Crystal Violate Lactone for NIR Light Detection and Writing Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-01-13 Shuangping Yang; Daniel K. Macharia; Sharjeel Ahmed; Bo Zhu; Qiuping Zhong; Haifeng Wang; Zhigang Chen
Rapid NIR light detection and/or writing has drawn much attention, but their practical applications have been limited by obtaining such NIR photodetectors. To address this problem, we have developed a simple and versatile strategy to prepare a non-woven fabric photodetector. The blue non-woven fabric photodetector has been prepared by coating photo-thermochromic ink (including crystal violet lactone
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In-Fiber Structured Particles and Filament Arrays from the Perspective of Fluid Instabilities Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2020-01-07 Bingrui Xu; Shuqi Ma; Yuanzhuo Xiang; Jing Zhang; Meifang Zhu; Lei Wei; Guangming Tao; Daosheng Deng
In-fiber structured particles and filament array have been recently emerging, providing unique advantages of feasible fabrication, diverse structures and sophisticated functionalities. This review will focus on the progress of this topic mainly from the perspective of fluid instabilities. By suppressing the capillary instability, the uniform layered structures down to nanometers are attained with the
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Single Crystal Fibers: Diversified Functional Crystal Material Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-12-10 Tao Wang; Jian Zhang; Na Zhang; Siyuan Wang; Baiyi Wu; Na Lin; Peter Kusalik; Zhitai Jia; Xutang Tao
AbstractSingle crystal fibers (SCF) are considered to be a combination of bulk crystals and conventional fibers, thereby possessing the stable physical and chemical properties accompanied with excellent waveguide properties. This paper gives a detailed introduction to the development history of single crystal fibers, including the evolution of the growth technique and the optimization of the growth
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Sweat-Driven Silk-yarn Switches Enabled by Highly Aligned Gaps for Air-conditioning Textiles Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Zhe Yin; Songlin Shi; Xiaoping Liang; Mingchao Zhang; Quanshui Zheng; Yingying Zhang
AbstractSmart textiles are attracting great interest. Particularly, air-conditioning textiles are highly desired for their merits in energy conservation and personal temperature/humidity management. Currently, air-conditioning textiles can be fabricated by two strategies. One uses infrared-radiation-adaptive materials, and the other uses moisture-responsive actuators that can regulate temperature and
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Smart Cotton Fabric with CO 2 -Responsive Wettability for Controlled Oil/Water Separation Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Liping Liang; Yanyan Dong; Hongfang Wang; Xu Meng
Stimuli-responsive materials with switchable wettability have promising practical applications in oil/water separation. A novel CO2-responsive cotton fabric for controlled oil/water separation was fabricated based on mussel-inspired reaction and polymerized with 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA). As expected, the modified fabric exhibited switchable hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity after
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Nanofibril Organization in Silk Fiber as Inspiration for Ductile and Damage-Tolerant Fiber Design Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Shihui Lin; Chao Ye; Wenwen Zhang; Anchang Xu; Shixian Chen; Jing Ren; Shengjie Ling
AbstractDuctile and damage-tolerant fibers (DDTFs) are desired in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering because of their ability to prevent the catastrophic sudden structural/mechanical failure. However, in practice, design and fabrication of DDTFs remain a major challenge due to finite fiber size and limited processing techniques. In this regard, animal silks can
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A Hollow Polyethylene Fiber-Based Artificial Muscle Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-11-13 Peng Gao; Jiahui Li; Qiuwei Shi
AbstractRecently, researches on artificial muscles for imitating the functions of the natural muscles has attracted wide attention. The fiber-shape actuators, shape-memory materials or deforming devices, which are similar to human muscle fiber bundles, have extensively studied and provided more possibilities for artificial muscles. Herein, we develop a thermal responsible fiber-shaped actuator based
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Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage in Thin Nanobelts Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-11-04 Ria Kunwar; Midhun Harilal; Syam G. Krishnan; Bhupender Pal; Izan Izwan Misnon; C. R. Mariappan; Fabian I. Ezema; Hendry Izaac Elim; Chun-Chen Yang; Rajan Jose
This article reports that extremely thin nanobelts (thickness ~ 10 nm) exhibit pseudocapacitive (PC) charge storage in the asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) configuration, while show battery-type charge storage in their single electrodes. Two types of nanobelts, viz. NiO–Co3O4 hybrid and spinal-type NiCo2O4, developed by electrospinning technique are used in this work. The charge storage behaviour of
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[2 + 2] Photocycloaddition Reaction Regulated the Stability and Morphology of Hydrogels Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-10-29 Ting Peng; Auphedeous Yinme Dang-i; Jinying Liu; Chuanliang Feng
AbstractPhotoresponsive supramolecular gels as intelligent non-invasive responsive materials can undergo changes in color, state, morphology and electronic properties upon photo irradiation, making them attractive for a variety of applications. Herein, a novel supramolecular hydrogelator DBE with 1,4-divinylbenzene as the central core, connected via amide linkage to l-phenylalanine and peripheral hydrophilic
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Perovskite Solar Fibers: Current Status, Issues and Challenges Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-10-08 Andrew Balilonda; Qian Li; Mike Tebyetekerwa; Rogers Tusiime; Hui Zhang; Rajan Jose; Fatemeh Zabihi; Shengyuan Yang; Seeram Ramakrishna; Meifang Zhu
Perovskite-based solar cells with high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) are currently being demonstrated in solid-state device designs. Their elevated performances can possibly be attained with different non-standard geometries, for example, the fiber-shaped perovskite solar cells, in the light of careful design and engineering. Fiber-shaped solar cells are promising in smart textiles energy harvesting
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Preparation and Characterization of Paclitaxel/Chitosan Nanosuspensions for Drug Delivery System and Cytotoxicity Evaluation In Vitro Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-10-08 Yongjia Liu; Fengren Wu; Yongle Ding; Bangshang Zhu; Yue Su; Xinyuan Zhu
In this study, we prepared paclitaxel/chitosan (PTX/CS) nanosuspensions (NSs) with different mass ratios of PTX and CS (1.5:2, 2:2, and 2.5:2), for controlled drug delivery purposes. For attachment and dispersion in water medium, a simple ultrasonic disruption technique was employed. The water-dispersed PTX/CS NSs exhibited a rod-shape morphology with an average diameter of 170–210 nm and average length
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Cellulose Nanofibrous Membranes Modified with Phenyl Glycidyl Ether for Efficient Adsorption of Bovine Serum Albumin Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-09-23 Lihuan Wang; Qiuxia Fu; Jianyong Yu; Lifang Liu; Bin Ding
AbstractHydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) as an indispensable method for protein purification has attracted considerable attentions of researchers as well as biopharmaceutical industries. However, the low binding capacity and slow adsorption rate of the currently available HIC media lead to a little supply and high price of the highly purified proteins. Herein, nanofibrous membranes with
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Optical Trapping and Manipulation Using Optical Fibers Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-09-18 Yuanhao Lou; Dan Wu; Yuanjie Pang
An optical trap forms a restoring optical force field to immobilize and manipulate tiny objects. A fiber optical trap is capable of establishing the restoring optical force field using one or a few pieces of optical fiber, and it greatly simplifies the optical setup by removing bulky optical components, such as microscope objectives from the working space. It also inherits other major advantages of
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N -Halamine Functionalized Electrospun Poly(Vinyl Alcohol- co -Ethylene) Nanofibrous Membranes with Rechargeable Antibacterial Activity for Bioprotective Applications Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-08-19 Mingguang Liang; Fei Wang; Mei Liu; Jianyong Yu; Yang Si; Bin Ding
AbstractDeveloping bioprotective materials with bactericidal activity is of great significance since it can effectively keep healthcare workers from infection by emerging infectious diseases; however, this is still a big challenge. Herein, we fabricate a novel rechargeable N-halamine antibacterial material by functionalizing electrospun poly(vinyl alcohol-co-ethylene) (EVOH) nanofibers with dimethylol-5
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Construction of Electrospun Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Nanofibers for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Applications Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-07-23 Wei Huang; Yunchao Xiao; Xiangyang Shi
AbstractElectrospun nanofibers hold a great potential in biomedical applications due to their advantages of large specific surface area, good biocompatibility, easy fabrication and surface modification. In particular, organic/inorganic hybrid nanofibers exhibit enhanced mechanical properties and long-term sustained release or controlled release profile of encapsulated drugs, which enables hybrid nanofibers
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High-Performance 3-D Fiber Network Composite Electrolyte Enabled with Li-Ion Conducting Nanofibers and Amorphous PEO-Based Cross-Linked Polymer for Ambient All-Solid-State Lithium-Metal Batteries Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-07-23 Chaoyi Yan; Pei Zhu; Hao Jia; Jiadeng Zhu; R. Kalai Selvan; Ya Li; Xia Dong; Zhuang Du; Indunil Angunawela; Nianqiang Wu; Mahmut Dirican; Xiangwu Zhang
AbstractSolid electrolytes have gained attention recently for the development of next-generation Li-ion batteries since they can fundamentally improve the battery stability and safety. Among various types of solid electrolytes, composite solid electrolytes (CSEs) exhibit both high ionic conductivity and excellent interfacial contact with the electrodes. Incorporating active nanofibers into the polymer
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Functionalization-Directed Stabilization of Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer Complex Fibers: Elasticity and Conductivity Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Jiefu Li; Jiaxing Sun; Di Wu; Wentao Huang; Meifang Zhu; Elsa Reichmanis; Shuguang Yang
AbstractElastic, repairable and conductive fibers are desirable in the newly emerging field of soft electronic and wearable devices. Here, we design a multifunctional fiber by incorporation of different components to optimize its performance. The combination of the poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) through hydrogen bonding endows the fiber with high elasticity and repairability
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Enhancing Dehydration Performance of Isopropanol by Introducing Intermediate Layer into Sodium Alginate Nanofibrous Composite Pervaporation Membrane Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Peiyun Li; Cheng Cheng; Ke Shen; Tonghui Zhang; Xuefen Wang; Benjamin S. Hsiao
AbstractA novel three-tier composite membrane based on highly porous nanofibrous substrate was demonstrated for efficient isopropanol dehydration by pervaporation. Here, polyethyleneimine (PEI) modified graphene oxide (GO) sheets were vacuum-assistant assembled onto porous electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibrous substrate to achieve a smooth, hydrophilic and compact PEI-GO intermediate layer
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Designing Textile Architectures for High Energy-Efficiency Human Body Sweat- and Cooling-Management Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-07-02 Kun Fu; Zhi Yang; Yong Pei; Yongxin Wang; Beibei Xu; YuHuang Wang; Bao Yang; Liangbing Hu
Thermal management of textiles requires local microclimate control over heat and wet dissipation to create a comfortable thermal-wet environment at the interface of the human body and clothing. Herein, we design a fabric capable of both sweat- and cooling-management using a knitted fabric featuring a bilayer structure consisting of hydrophobic polyethylene terephthalate and hydrophilic cellulose fibers
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Advanced Functional Fiber and Smart Textile Adv. Fiber Mater. Pub Date : 2019-07-02 Qiuwei Shi; Jianqi Sun; Chengyi Hou; Yaogang Li; Qinghong Zhang; Hongzhi Wang
AbstractThe research and applications of fiber materials are directly related to the daily life of social populace and the development of relevant revolutionary manufacturing industry. However, the conventional fibers and fiber products can no longer meet the requirements of automation and intellectualization in modern society, as well as people’s consumption needs in pursuit of smart, avant-grade
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