Engineering fibers

Department of Chemical Engineering and Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0909, USA... 

Fig. 14.11 Schematic representation of fiber spinning process simulation scheme showing the multiple scale simulation analysis down to the molecular level. This is the goal of the Clemson University-MIT NSF Engineering Research Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF) collaboration. CAEFF researchers are addressing fiber and film forming and structuring by creating a multiscale model that can be used to predict optimal combinations of materials and manufacturing conditions, for these and other processes.

AEF advanced engineering fiber trile-butadiene (rubber)... 

Director, School of Textiles, Fiber and Polymer Science, and Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films, Clemson University, South Carolina Polyaniline... 

The commonly used alternative to an engineered fiber-matrix interlayer is a relatively weak matrix [28 2]. It was observed that one type of weak interface is created by using a highly porous oxide fiber coating [43]. By extension, fabricating the composite such that the entire matrix is porous results in effective crack deflection and toughening [4]. 

Another critical physical property of polymers is elasticity. The ability of many polymeric materials to be stressed and deformed but return to their original shape is a characteristic that is often valuable to engineers. Fibers, in particular, must be elastic. Polymers that are particularly flexible and elastic are sometimes referred to as elastomers. Looking at the molecular structure of elastomers, we find that they tend to share some common traits. In particular, the geometry of the carbon backbone is often such that the elastomer forms an amorphous solid rather than a crystalline one. The forces between polymer molecules in an amorphous solid are not as strong as those in a more crystalline system, so they can be deformed and restored with less force. 

This work has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Grant Number 81EZ-68591, by the ERC program of the National Science Foundation under Grants 0079734 and EEC-9731680 (Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films - CAEFF), and by the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number DMR-9808941. 

This work was supported by the Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF) of the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation, under NSF Award Number EEC-9731680. This material is also based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0079734. 

The USD A Flax Pilot Plant (Flax-PP) contains a separate research component for enzyme-retting plant stalks to engineer fibers with desired properties, to optimize enzyme-retting, and to enhance processing. Pilot scale tests of commercially cleaned flax indicated that fiber strength, fineness, and yield could be varied by enzyme/chelator levels (Akin et al. 2001). Our proposed current method to enzymatically ret flax stalks includes commercial pectate lyases after chelator for high... 

Simmonds E.,Bomberger, J.D. and Bryner M. A. (2007), Designing non-wovens to meet pore size specifications,/ournaZ of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics, 2(1), 1-15. 

Rong Z, et al. Enhanced bioactivity of osteohlast-hke cells on poly(lactic acid)/ poly(methyl methacrylate)/nano-hydroxyapatite scaffolds for hone tissue engineering. Fibers Polym 2015 16(2) 245-53. 

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Velum, J. B., K. K. Satheesh, D. C. Trivedi, M. V. Ramakrishna, and N. T. Srinivasan (2007). Electrical properties of electrospun fibers of PANI-PMMA composites. Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics 2(2) 25—31. 

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We thank M. Whitaker, R. Martin, and B. Harruff for assistance in the preparation of the manuscript. This work was made possible by the support of Dr. J. Tishkoff and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (C.E.B.), the Department of Energy under Contracts DE-AC07-99ID13727 (H.W.R.) and DE-FG02-00ER45859 (Y.-RS.), and the National Science Foundation through CHE-9729756 and the Clemson Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (Y.-RS). 

Zargham, S., Bazgir, S., Tavakoli, A., Rashidi, A.S., Damerchely, R., 2012. The effect of flow rate on morphology and deposition area of electrospun Nylon 6 nanofiber. Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics 7, 42 9. 

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