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Fibers, Volume 5, Issue 2

2017 June - 9 articles

Cover Story: Palladium (Pd) nanoparticles were blended into a solution of a sacrificial polymer and an aluminum sol gel precursor to form alumina fibers containing palladium particles ranging from 5–20 nm. Fibers were calcined at different temperatures of 650 °C and 1150 °C to remove the polymer and oxidize the aluminum. As calcination temperature increased, the alumina crystal structure changed from amorphous at 650 °C to alpha crystal structure at 1150 °C. Higher calcination temperatures led to higher reaction temperatures from 250 to about 450 °C for total conversion, indicating that the effective reactivity of the fiber-supported catalysts decreased with increasing calcination temperature. View Paper here.
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Articles (9)

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,540 Views
12 Pages

Advances in Mid-IR Fiber Lasers: Tellurite, Fluoride and Chalcogenide

  • Mario Christian Falconi,
  • Dario Laneve and
  • Francesco Prudenzano

15 June 2017

A review on the recent progress in modeling and fabrication of medium infrared (Mid-IR) fiber lasers is reported. The main objective is to illustrate some recent examples of continuous wave optical sources at wavelengths longer than those commonly em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,074 Views
14 Pages

8 June 2017

In this work, palladium (Pd) nanoparticles were blended into a solution of a sacrificial polymer and an aluminum sol gel precursor to form alumina fibers containing the palladium particles. The polymer solution was electrospun into template submicron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,410 Views
7 Pages

Compact Narrow Linewidth Actively Q-Switched Er–Yb Double-Clad Fiber Laser

  • Berenice Posada-Ramírez,
  • Manuel Durán-Sánchez,
  • Ricardo I. Alvarez-Tamayo,
  • Jared Alaniz-Baylón,
  • Guillermo Salceda-Delgado,
  • Evgeny A. Kuzin and
  • Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla

3 June 2017

Actively Q-switched laser operation of a narrow linewidth compact fiber laser based on an Er–Yb double-clad fiber is presented. The laser linewidth as a function of the repetition rate and the Q-switched pulses characteristics for different pump powe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,764 Views
11 Pages

Fourier-Transform Imaging of Cotton and Botanical and Field Trash Mixtures

  • Chanel Fortier,
  • Michael Santiago Cintrón,
  • James Rodgers,
  • Krystal Fontenot and
  • Donna Peralta

23 May 2017

Botanical and field cotton trash comingled with Upland cotton lint can greatly reduce the marketability and quality of cotton. Trash found comingled with cotton lint during harvesting, ginning, and processing is of interest to the textile community....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,035 Views
22 Pages

Exploration of Wave Development during Yarn Transverse Impact

  • Matthew Hudspeth,
  • Emily Jewell,
  • Suzanne Horner,
  • James Zheng and
  • Weinong Chen

16 May 2017

Single yarns have been impacted in a transverse fashion so as to probe the characteristics of resulting wave development. Longitudinal wave speeds were tracked in efforts to directly measure the yarn tensile stiffness, resulting in a slight increase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,954 Views
14 Pages

Experimental and Analytical Modeling of GFRP Strengthened Grouted Mortarless Masonry Prisms

  • Liang Huang,
  • Chang Gao,
  • Libo Yan,
  • Xiaoxi Li,
  • Gao Ma and
  • Tianfeng Wang

12 May 2017

The compressive performance of grouted mortarless masonry prisms strengthened with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites was investigated in this study. A total of 18 grouted mortarless masonry specimens, i.e., nine strengthened with GFRP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
13,988 Views
15 Pages

1 May 2017

Poor detailing of the position of bearing pad over reinforced concrete (RC) corbel may lead to premature failure, which is undesired and structurally vulnerable. An appropriate retrofitting solution is necessary to ensure the functionality of such RC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,604 Views
9 Pages

19 April 2017

The article presents fabrication and luminescent properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) fiber doped by Oxazine 170 perchlorate. The bright fluorescence of polymeric fiber (at molar fluorescent organic dye concentration 4.3 × 10−5) was charact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,921 Views
19 Pages

Preparation and Characterization of Polymeric-Hybrid PES/TiO2 Hollow Fiber Membranes for Potential Applications in Water Treatment

  • Silvia Simone,
  • Francesco Galiano,
  • Mirko Faccini,
  • Marcel E. Boerrigter,
  • Christiane Chaumette,
  • Enrico Drioli and
  • Alberto Figoli

4 April 2017

In this work, poly(ethersulfone) (PES) ultrafiltration (UF) hollow fibers (HF) were modified by introducing TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs) in the polymeric dope, to endow them with photocatalytic properties. Different dope compositions and spinning co...

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Fibers - ISSN 2079-6439