Fiber Growth

M. J. P. Nijmeijer, P. Landau. Simulation of optical fiber growth in three dimensions. Comput Mater Sci 7 325, 1997. 

Even in the case of spinal cord injury where application of anti-Nogo antibodies results in regeneration of the cut axons, an additional important element for functional recovery is enhanced fiber growth from the unlesioned fibers, i.e. compensatory plasticity, as discussed above. After high corticospinal tract injury in the rat at the level of the medullary pyramid and treatment with anti-Nogo antibodies, rubrospinal pathways were shown to sprout into deafferented areas of the spinal cord, resulting in high levels of functional recovery, i.e. a functional switch in the remodeled pathway [42]. 

Scheibel, T., Kowal, A. S., Bloom, J. D., and Lindquist, S. L. (2001). Bidirectional amyloid fiber growth for a yeast prion determinant. Curr. Biol. 11, 366-369. 

The superior fiber growth of CNH P4 compared to CN P4 is attributed to enhanced intermolecular interactions, that is, hydrogen bonding between the lone pair of... 

The possibility of well-defined nanofiber growth on muscovite starting with substituted oligomers that is, fiber growth is not prevented by the functional groups but is even improved in some cases. 

Figure 3 shows video images of fiber growth made through a window at the top of the growth tube each dark circle defines the inner wall of the tube at a different time. Figure 3a was made after the growth tube had been exposed to the experimental conditions cited above for 9.5 h. Very thin fibers first became visible within 30 minutes (Figure 3b). These fibers continued to thicken with time and thus became more visible as the experiment was concluded.

TIBBETTS Carbon Fiber Growth in Stainless Steel Tubes... 

Figure 1. Schematic diagram of fiber growth apparatus including 304 stainless steel growth tube. Flowmeters are labeled "F".

Pyrolysis Regimes. Results of a further experiment show how pyrolysis conditions change after time t when the tube interior saturates. A number of thick 304 stainless steel wires (0.31 mm in diameter) were supported in the furnace during a fiber growth experiment and allowed to a drop out of the hot zone after different periods. Thus, the mass increase of these wires could be determined as a function of the length of time they remained in contact with pyrolyzing natural gas in the growth tube. 

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