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Fibers, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2023 - 11 articles

Cover Story: Scientists aim to create innovative solutions to develop drugs with improved therapeutic potential. Conventional dosage forms have limitations for advanced therapeutics, such as drug targeting. To address these limitations, nanofibers have emerged as novel materials, offering enhanced bioavailability, targeted drug release, and reduced toxicity. This review focuses on drug-loaded nanofibers and their potential in drug delivery, exploring different production methods. It highlights the importance, versatility, and adaptability of nanofibers in developing medicines with varied drug release kinetics. Challenges to their commercial realization include drug loading, the initial burst effect, residual organic solvent, active agent stability, and use of biocompatible polymers. View this paper
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Articles (11)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,417 Views
9 Pages

Compression of Few-Microjoule Femtosecond Pulses in a Hollow-Core Revolver Fiber

  • Leonid Losev,
  • Vladimir Pazyuk,
  • Alexey Gladyshev,
  • Yury Yatsenko,
  • Alexey Kosolapov and
  • Igor Bufetov

20 February 2023

Gas-filled hollow-core fibers are a convenient tool for laser pulse compression down to a few-cycle duration. The development of compact, efficient and high quality compression schemes for laser pulses of relatively low μJ-level energies is of par...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
14,907 Views
37 Pages

Nanofibres in Drug Delivery Applications

  • Samia Farhaj,
  • Barbara R. Conway and
  • Muhammad Usman Ghori

17 February 2023

Over the years, scientists have been continually striving to develop innovative solutions to design and fabricate medicines with improved therapeutic potential. Conventional dosage forms, such as tablets, capsules, and injections, are limited when ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,161 Views
18 Pages

On the Design of Permanent Rock Support Using Fibre-Reinforced Shotcrete

  • Andreas Sjölander,
  • Anders Ansell and
  • Erik Nordström

16 February 2023

Fibre-reinforced shotcrete (sprayed concrete) is one of the major components in the support system for tunnels in hard rock. Several empirical design methodologies have been developed over the years due to the complexity and many uncertainties involv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,143 Views
21 Pages

Thin-Layer Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Sandwich Walls: Numerical Evaluation

  • Ulvis Skadiņš,
  • Kristens Kuļevskis,
  • Andris Vulāns and
  • Raitis Brencis

9 February 2023

In this study, structural thin-layer sandwich walls (SWs) made of steel-fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC) without conventional reinforcements were investigated. Other researchers have shown that SWs with thin wythes can be used as load bearing structu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,135 Views
19 Pages

Characterization and Simulation of Acoustic Properties of Sugarcane Bagasse-Based Composite Using Artificial Neural Network Model

  • Virginia Puyana-Romero,
  • Jorge Santiago Arroyo Chuquín,
  • Saúl Israel Méndez Chicaiza and
  • Giuseppe Ciaburro

3 February 2023

Environmental sustainability and environmental protection represent essential challenges for the well-being of the community. The use of eco-sustainable materials in architecture is necessary for the transformation of urban centers into modern sustai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,747 Views
17 Pages

Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Composites: A Review

  • Vojtěch Růžek,
  • Ardak Mukhamedievna Dostayeva,
  • Janusz Walter,
  • Thomas Grab and
  • Kinga Korniejenko

1 February 2023

The article summarizes the state of the art in carbon-reinforced geopolymers. It takes into consideration various types of matrices and types of carbon fibers (CFs). The article shows the growing importance of this composite in the investigation cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,541 Views
17 Pages

Effect of Cross-Linkers on the Processing of Lignin/Polyamide Precursors for Carbon Fibres

  • Baljinder K. Kandola,
  • Trishan A. M. Hewage,
  • Muhammed Hajee and
  • A. Richard Horrocks

29 January 2023

This work reports the use of cross-linkers in bio-based blends from hydroxypropyl-modified lignin (TcC) and a bio-based polyamide (PA1010) for possible use as carbon fibre precursors, which, while minimising their effects on melt processing into fila...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,794 Views
28 Pages

Reducing Plastic in Consumer Goods: Opportunities for Coarser Wool

  • Lisbeth Løvbak Berg,
  • Ingun Grimstad Klepp,
  • Anna Schytte Sigaard,
  • Jan Broda,
  • Monika Rom and
  • Katarzyna Kobiela-Mendrek

28 January 2023

Production and use of plastic products have drastically increased during the past decades and their environmental impacts are increasingly spotlighted. At the same time, coarse wool, a by-product of meat and dairy production, goes largely unexploited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,237 Views
15 Pages

Investigation of the Influence of Hexabenzocoronene in Polyacrylonitrile-Based Precursors for Carbon Fibers

  • Romy Peters,
  • Dawon Jang,
  • Daniel Sebastian Jens Wolz,
  • Sungho Lee,
  • Hubert Jäger,
  • Mirko Richter,
  • Chokri Cherif,
  • Kiryl Vasiutovich,
  • Marcus Richter and
  • Xinliang Feng
  • + 2 authors

28 January 2023

For several decades, carbon fibers have been used for lightweight engineering in aircraft automotive and sports industries, mostly based on high-quality polyacrylonitrile (PAN). We investigated a novel PAN-based precursor fiber (PF) modified with a p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,488 Views
19 Pages

Physical, Chemical, and Mechanical Characterization of Natural Bark Fibers (NBFs) Reinforced Polymer Composites: A Bibliographic Review

  • Sivasubramanian Palanisamy,
  • Mayandi Kalimuthu,
  • Rajini Nagarajan,
  • José Maria Fernandes Marlet and
  • Carlo Santulli

28 January 2023

The specific interest for the use of bark in materials, instead than for energy recovery, is owed to circular economy considerations, since bark fibers are normally byproducts or even waste from other sectors, and therefore their use would globally r...

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