It may soon be possible to produce a low cost, high-value, high-strength fiber from a biodegradable and renewable waste product for air filtration, water filtration and agricultural nanotechnology, ...

The new process, called gel electrospinning, is described in a paper by MIT professor of chemical engineering Gregory Rutledge and postdoc Jay Park. The paper appears online and will be published in ...

Scientist are developing new applications for a fabrication process called coaxial electrospinning, which combines two or more materials into a fine fiber for use in industry, textiles or even ...

Electrospinning operates on a straightforward principle involving a high-voltage electric field applied between a droplet of polymer solution (or melt) held by a syringe and a grounded collector. The ...

Kao has been granted a patent for a fiber collection tool used in electrospinning. The tool, which can be held by hand, includes an electroconductive section and a surface section. The method involves ...

Could clothing monitor a person’s health in real time, because the clothing itself is a self-powered sensor? A new material created through electrospinning, which is a process that draws out fibers ...

The surface-initiated ATRP of HEMA proceeded in the same manner. The reaction mixture containing the non-woven fiber mat, the spin-coated film, CuBr (0.020 mmol), 2,2′-bipyridyl (0.040 mmol), HEMA ...