Publications related to Staple (textiles)

Capillary Effects in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Processing: A Review

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal, Helena Luisa Teixido Pedarros

Capillarity plays a crucial role in many natural and engineered systems, ranging from nutrient delivery in plants to functional textiles for wear comfort or thermal heat pipes for heat dissipation. Unlike nano- or microfluidic systems with well-defined por ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Micromechanical design of hierarchical composites using global load sharing theory

William Curtin

Hierarchical composites, embodied by natural materials ranging from bone to bamboo, may offer combinations of material properties inaccessible to conventional composites. Using global load sharing (GLS) theory, a well-established micromechanics model for c ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Synthesis of mesoporous functional hematite nanofibrous photoanodes by electrospinning

Ali Dabirian

Iron(III) oxide (hematite, Fe2O3) nanofibers, as visible light-induced photoanode for water oxidation reaction of a water splitting process, were fabricated through electrospinning method followed by calcination treatment. The prepared samples were charact ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

RF-plasma pretreatment of surfaces leading to TiO2 coatings with improved optical absorption and OH-radical production

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Christophe Roussel

Evidence is presented for the RF pretreatment of polyester enhances the TiO2 coating generation of oxidative species/radicals under a low level actinic light irradiation. After 30 min RF-plasma pretreatment of the polyester samples, the fastest bacterial i ...

Elsevier2013

Ag-surfaces sputtered by DC and pulsed DC-magnetron sputtering effective in bacterial inactivation: Testing and characterization

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Rosendo Sanjines, Cristina del Socorro Lonfat

This study addresses the deposition of active, uniform nanoparticulate Ag-thin films on polyester textiles by DC-magnetron sputtering (DC) and pulsed DC-magnetron sputtering (DCP). The deposition of Ag on the polyester fiber was observed to be the function ...

2012

Design, testing and characterization of innovative TiN–TiO2 surfaces inactivating bacteria under low intensity visible light

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

Ti was sputtered in a plasma chamber under a N2 atmosphere, depositing TiN films on polyester fibers. These films show a significant adsorption in the visible spectral region. A TiN layer 50 nm thick sputtered for 3 min under low intensity/actinic visible ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2012

Antibacterial Ag-ZrN surfaces promoted by subnanometric ZrN-clusters deposited by reactive pulsed magnetron sputtering

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Rosendo Sanjines

Ag-ZrN films were deposited on polyester by direct current pulsed magnetron sputtering (from now on DCMSP) in Ar + N-2 atmosphere. ZrN on the polyester surface interacts with Ag leading to Ag-ZrN films. These composite films were more active in Escherichia ...

2012

3D morphology of cell cultures: a quantitative approach using micrometer synchrotron light tomography

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Randoald Müller

Current issues in both tissue engineering and cell biology deal with cell behavior extensively in 3D. Here, we explore synchrotron radiation micro-computed tomography as a tool for morphological characterization of such 3D cellular constructs, providing mi ...

2005