Among microplastics (MPs), fibers are one of the most abundant shapes encountered in the aquatic environment. Growing attention is being focused on this typology of particles since they are considered an important form of marine contamination. Inform...
Recent developments in fiber-optic sensing have involved booming research in the design and manufacturing of novel micro-structured optical fiber devices. From the conventional tapered fiber architectures to the novel micro-machined devices by advanc...
We demonstrated a new method for temperature measurement inside a fiber ring laser (FRL) cavity. Different from traditional FRL temperature sensing system which need additional filter working as a sensor, a micro-fiber coupler (MFC) was designed as a...
The effect of the microstructure of hydrophilic polypropylene (PP) fibers in the distribution of cracking associated with the strengthening and toughening mechanism of cement-based composites under tensile loading was studied. Using a filament windin...
Function expansion of fiber sensor is highly desired for ultrasensitive optical detection and analysis. Here, we present an approach of multifunctional fiber sensor based on Fano resonances and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) excited via c...
Electrospun phospholipid (asolectin) microfibers were investigated as antioxidants and encapsulation matrices for curcumin and vanillin. These phospholipid microfibers exhibited antioxidant properties which increased after the encapsulation of both c...
Fabrication of polymer composite fibers embedding ultra-long micro/nanowires via an iterative melt co-drawing and bundling technique is reported in this study. The poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) porous array templates were prepared with section-cut...
Label-free and multiphoton micro-endoscopy can transform clinical histopathology by providing an in situ tool for diagnostic imaging and surgical treatment in diseases such as cancer. Key to a multiphoton imaging-based micro-endoscopic device is the...
The addition of steel fiber to self-consolidating concrete (SCC) may considerably prolong concrete cracking time and improve its deforming performance. Current studies mainly apply high content micro-steel fibers to improve the mechanical performance...
In this study, the effect of micro-carbon fiber on the properties of concrete incorporating recycled coarse aggregate at three different levels, i.e., 0%, 50%, and 100% by volume replacement of natural coarse aggregate, was studied. Carbon fiber was...
Pineapple leaf fibers (PALFs), obtained from abundant yet underutilized pineapple leaf residues, represent a promising feedstock for producing fibrillated cellulose. In this work, cellulosic fibers were isolated and characterized by Fiber Quality Ana...
Accurate paper fiber identification is essential for cultural heritage conservation. Traditional staining methods are destructive, while macroscopic AI models often lack physicochemical interpretability. This study explores the feasibility of a non-d...
Investigations on the usability of waste plastics as a new generation of construction materials have become one of the main concerns of researchers and engineers in recent decades. Waste plastics can be used either as aggregate replacement or as fibe...
In this work, we propose and demonstrate a micro-polishing-fiber (MPF)-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor. The structure of the sensor is simple and consists of three layers of regular air holes and two small air holes. The sensitivity seld...
Although the applicability of modal fibers and microfibers for the production of lingerie knitwear is confirmed by commercial use, their share in the total consumption of man-made cellulosic fibers is very low. Their applicability in the fabrication...
Micro-Raman spectroscopy has been applied on UICC (Union for International Cancer Control’s) crocidolite and amosite from South Africa and on UICC chrysotile from Canada. Under Optical Microscope (OM), the surface of the fibers was often charac...
This study investigated the occurrence of fibrous microplastics and natural and artificial cellulose microfibers in the gastrointestinal tracts of Mullus barbatus and Merluccius merluccius specimens from the Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean), an i...
Several types of advanced materials have been developed to be applied in many industrial application fields to satisfy the high performance required. Despite this, research and development of process suited to machine are still limited. Due to the hi...
Effective multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) fiber manufacturing methods have received a substantial amount of attention due to the low cost and excellent properties of MWCNTs. Here, we fabricated hybrid microfibers composed of hyaluronic acid (HA)...
Single-crystal fibers (SCFs) have a great application potential in high-power lasers due to their excellent performance. In this work, high-quality and crack-free Yb3+:Lu3Al5O12 (Yb:LuAG) SCFs were successfully fabricated by the micro-pulling-down (&...
Ocean internal-wave phenomena occur with the variation in seawater vertical temperature, and most internal-wave detections are dependent on the measurement of seawater vertical temperature. A seawater temperature sensor based on a microfiber knot res...
Capillary self-alignment technique can achieve highly accurate and fast alignment of micro components. Capillary self-alignment technique relies on the confinement of liquid droplets at receptor sites where hydrophobic–hydrophilic patterns are widely...
Fiber micro-knots are a promising and a cheap solution for advanced fiber-based sensors. We investigated complex fiber micro-knots in theory and experiment. We compared the measured spectral response and present an analytical study of simple micro-kn...
To fully exploit the potential of hydrogel micro-fibers in the design of regenerative medicinal materials, we designed a simple, easy to replicate system for cell embedding in degradable fibrous scaffolds, and validated its effectiveness using algina...
Fabrication of micro- and nanofibers are critical for a wide range of applications from microelectronics to biotechnology. Alginate microfibers with diameters of tens to hundreds of microns play an important role in tissue engineering and fibers of t...
The optical properties of solid-core micro-structured optical fibers (SC MOFs) have been studied for a long time. The process of the energy outflow of the core modes has always been associated with the process of constructive interference of the core...
Fiber actuators underpin soft robots, artificial muscles, and smart textiles. A persistent bottleneck is the fabrication of monodomain liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) microfibers with narrow size distributions while preserving axial alignment. This wo...
The effects of different reinforcement shapes on stability and repeatability of micro electrical discharge machining were experimentally investigated for ultra-high-temperature ceramics based on zirconium diboride (ZrB2) doped by SiC. Two reinforceme...
The combination of the triboelectric effect and static electricity as a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has been extensively studied. TENGs using nanofibers have advantages such as high surface roughness, porous structure, and ease of production b...
This research examines the electrochemical polymerization of 3-Methyl-4-phenylpyrrole on carbon microfibers and compares its electrode performance with similar structures utilizing Poly-pyrrole and Poly-3-Phenylpyrrole on carbon microfibers. For tech...
Large numbers of Single Use Surgical-type Face Masks, used by the public as personal protective equipment during the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic, have been lost or intentionally discarded and have entered the environment rather than the waste m...
We suggest a fiber micro-knot fabricated on a long-period fiber grating. The long-period fiber grating excites high-order modes into the micro-knot and transfers the output back to the Gaussian mode. We show theoretically and experimentally that thes...
In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate an add-drop filter based on wavelength-dependent light coupling between a lithium-niobate (LN) microwaveguide chip and a microfiber knot ring (MKR). The MKR was fabricated from a standard single-mode fiber...
Filtrate reducer is a drilling fluid additive that can effectively control the filtration loss of drilling fluid to ensure the safe and efficient exploitation of oilfields. It is the most widely used treatment agent in oilfields. Due to its moderate...
A new method to fabricate an integrated optical fiber micro-sphere with a diameter within 100 µm, based on the optical fiber tapering technique and the Taguchi method is proposed. Using a 125 µm diameter single-mode (SM) optical fiber, an optical fib...
Silk and polycaprolactone (PCL), derived from natural and synthetic sources, respectively, are suture materials commonly used in surgery. Beyond their application in sutures, they are also compelling subjects in regenerative medicine and tissue engin...
Repair materials have been developed in this research by adding micro-synthetic fibers in cement-based mortar. In addition, accelerator is incorporated in the mortar to obtain high early strength of the repair materials. Their shrinkage behavior is o...
The temperature sensitivity of the free spectral range (FSR) for a polymer-overlaid microfiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The waist diameter of the optical microfiber can be controlled to...
This present paper describes a novel method to fabricate tactile sensor arrays by producing aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs)-polyurethane (PU) composite sub-microfiber (SMF) arrays with the electrospinning technique. The proposed sensor...
With diameter close to or below the wavelength of guided light and high index contrast between the fiber core and the surrounding, an optical microfiber shows a variety of interesting waveguiding properties, including widely tailorable optical confin...
Optical microfiber-based temperature sensors have been proposed for many applications in a variety of industrial uses, including biomedical, geological, automotive, and defense applications. This increasing demand for these micrometric devices is att...
A discontinuous fiber-reinforced polymer composite (DFRPC) provides superior mechanical performances in material extrusion additive manufacturing (MEAM) parts, and thus promotes their implementations in engineering applications. However, the process-...
Hollow microfibers can be fabricated by using different materials such as metals and glass. The inner diameter of strong, tough, and conductive metallic tubes is on a submillimeter scale while that of quartz glass tubes made by thermoplastic forming...
One-part geopolymer mortars provide an alternative to cementitious materials by using dry activators and industrial by-products. This study evaluated a multi-precursor matrix containing slag, fly ash, ceramic powder, red mud, and 5% MgO, reinforced w...
Strain hardening has important roles in understanding material structures and polymer processing methods, such as foaming, film forming, and fiber extruding. A common method to improve strain hardening behavior is to chemically branch polymer structu...
We investigated the probability of copepod entanglement in microfibers in a laboratory experiment. This experiment was inspired by an accidental observation of entangled copepods with microfibers during isolating copepods for grazing experiments. The...
A sensing head based on a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber for in-reflection measurement of micro-displacements is presented. The sensing structure takes advantage of the multimodal behavior of a short segment of hollow-core photonic crystal fiber...
This paper proposes a fiber Bragg grating sensing-based micro-vibration sensor. The optical fiber has been directly treated as an elastomer to design the micro-vibration sensor, which possesses two FBGs. The mass is fixed on the middle of the fiber,...
A hypothesis was put forward that a nano-modifying additive of micro silica, which had a beneficial effect on achieving a perfect structure of heavy concrete, can also be effectively used in lightweight fiber-reinforced concrete. The nano-modifying a...
In this study, the two-dimensional aligned steel fiber-reinforced micro-expansive concrete (2D) was prepared, aiming to address the inherent vulnerabilities of concrete, such as early-age shrinkage cracking and low tensile ductility. For this purpose...
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