Macromolecular Materials and Engineering has published a new special issue on functional nanofibers, guest-edited by Il-Doo Kim.
Advances in Electrospun Functional Nanofibers
May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Nanoscale “bed of nails” could kickstart new drug-delivery systems
January 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
NC State researchers create develop an elastic material that is embedded with aligned, nanoscale needles.
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Making conductive CNTs easy
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
New nanotube fibers have unmatched combination of strength, conductivity, flexibility.
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Southampton scientists develop strong, light glass nanofibres
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Dr Gilberto Brambilla and Professor Sir David Payne announce creation of the new material – the strongest and lightest yet made.
Scaling-Up Electrospinning: A Review of Industrial Opportunities and Technological Challenges
January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Leading experts have reported on the industrial upscaling of electrospinning and applications of polymer nanofibers.
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Electrospun Light-Emitting Nanofibers: From Lab-On-A-Chip Devices to Optical Sensors
December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Italian researchers review the properties of electrospun light-emitting nanofibers.
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Electrically spun fabric offers dual defense against pregnancy, HIV
November 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers can dissolve to release drugs, providing a platform for cheap, discrete and reversible protection.
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Antimicrobial scaffolds for tissue engineering
November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A research team have loaded microgels onto a nanofiber scaffold to combat bacterial infection during tissue regeneration procedures.
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Nanofibre morphology control
September 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Kunio Kimura et al. at Okayama University make needles, spheres & nanofibre networks by changing the copolymerisation conditions of rigid aromatic polymers.
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Giving recycling teeth: polylactic acid with nanofiber strengthening
February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Researchers strengthen the environmentally friendly plastic PLA using cellulose nanofibers.
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