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Article: Research from M.L. Ma and co-authors yields new data on nanotechnology.
- Article from:
- Nanotechnology Weekly
- Article date:
- May 18, 2009
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"Fibers with long-range ordered internal structures have applications in various areas such as photonic band gap fibers, optical waveguides, wearable power, sensors, and sustained drug release. Up to now, such fibers have been formed by melt extrusion or drawing from a macroscopic preformed rod and were typically limited to diameters >10 mu m with internal features >1 mu m (Abouraddy, A. F.; et al. Nat. Mater. 2007, 6, 336)," scientists in the United States report.
"We describe a new class of continuous fibers and fibrous membranes with long-range ordered concentric lamellar structure that have fiber diameters and feature sizes 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller ...