ArticleNature communications2017
Thermally-drawn fibers with spatially-selective porous domains.
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- Weaving Intelligence: Thermally Drawn Multimaterial Fibers Toward AI-Enabled Smart Textiles.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- Cholesteric Cellulose Liquid Crystal Fibers by Direct Drawing.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Fibrous wearable and implantable bioelectronics.Applied physics reviews · 2023Review
- Piezoelectric fibers for flexible and wearable electronics.Frontiers of optoelectronics · 2023Review
- A 'Moore's law' for fibers enables intelligent fabrics.National science review · 2023Review
- Chirally Reversed Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Designer patterned functional fibers via direct imprinting in thermal drawing.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Scalable Fabrication of Highly Flexible Porous Polymer-Based Capacitive Humidity Sensor Using Convergence Fiber Drawing.Polymers · 2019Article
- Next-generation interfaces for studying neural function.Nature biotechnology · 2019Review
- Scalable Fabrication of Porous Microchannel Nerve Guidance Scaffolds with Complex Geometries.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2019Article
- Towards Digital Manufacturing of Smart Multimaterial Fibers.Nanoscale research letters · 2019Review
- Dynamic assembly of liquid crystalline graphene oxide gel fibers for ion transport.Science advances · 2018Article
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Abstract
The control of mass transport using porous fibers is ubiquitous, with applications ranging from filtration to catalysis. Yet, to date, porous fibers have been made of single materials in simple geometries, with limited function. Here we report the fabrication and characterization of thermally drawn multimaterial fibers encompassing internal porous domains alongside non-porous insulating and conductive materials, in highly controlled device geometries. Our approach utilizes phase separation of a polymer solution during the preform-to-fiber drawing process, generating porosity as the fiber is drawn. Engineering the preform structure grants control over the geometry and materials architecture of the final porous fibers. Electrical conductivity of the selectrolyte-filled porous domains is substantiated through ionic conductivity measurements using electrodes thermally drawn in the cross-section. Pore size tunability between 500 nm-10 µm is established by regulating the phase separation kinetics. We further demonstrate capillary breakup of cylindrical porous structures porous microspheres within the fiber core.Porous polymer fibers show great potential for a range of applications, but their simple structures typically limit their functionality. Here, the authors combine a thermal drawing process with polymer solution phase separation to fabricate porous multimaterial fibers with complex internal architectures.
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