Lecture

Advanced Manufacturing in Fiber Technologies: Part I

Graph Chat

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

In course

MICRO-631: Selected topics in advanced manufacturing

The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of ongoing advanced manufacturing research topics and an opportunity for students to investigate current research trends. ...

Description

This lecture by the instructor covers the topic of advanced manufacturing in fiber technologies, focusing on the challenges and opportunities in creating functional fibers. The presentation delves into the processing methodologies, materials, and device concepts essential for disruptive technologies in fiber manufacturing. It explores the vision of fluid-based manufacturing, emphasizing the importance of fluid processes in creating multi-material nano-architectures. The lecture also discusses research at FIMAP, highlighting the engineering of fluid flow for scalable nanofabrication of soft electronic and photonic devices. Various techniques such as extrusion, spinning, and wet spinning are explained in detail, showcasing their significance in fabricating fibers for applications in tissue engineering, wound management, and optoelectronics.

Official source

Related concepts (32)

Fluid dynamics

In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including aerodynamics (the study of air and other gases in motion) and hydrodynamics (the study of liquids in motion). Fluid dynamics has a wide range of applications, including calculating forces and moments on aircraft, determining the mass flow rate of petroleum through pipelines, predicting weather patterns, understanding nebulae in interstellar space and modelling fission weapon detonation.

Fiber to the x

Fiber to the x (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications. As fiber optic cables are able to carry much more data than copper cables, especially over long distances, copper telephone networks built in the 20th century are being replaced by fiber.

Optoelectronics

Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisible forms of radiation such as gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared, in addition to visible light. Optoelectronic devices are electrical-to-optical or optical-to-electrical transducers, or instruments that use such devices in their operation.

Optical fiber

An optical fiber, or optical fibre in Commonwealth English, is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair. Optical fibers are used most often as a means to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber and find wide usage in fiber-optic communications, where they permit transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data transfer rates) than electrical cables.

Fluid mechanics

Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them. It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, and biomedical engineering, as well as geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, and biology. It can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion.

Related lectures (64)

Advanced Manufacturing in Fiber Technologies: Thermal Drawing Process

Explores the Thermal Drawing Process, step index fibers, viscosity of polymers, surface tension, and sub-micrometer textured fibers.

Instability of a Jet: Deformation and Drops

Explores the instability of a jet, focusing on deformation and breakup into drops, with applications in industrial processes and dynamics of water surface waves.

Deformation and Rupture in Composite Materials

Explores the deformation and rupture behavior of composite materials, emphasizing continuous fiber composites and the role of the fiber-matrix interface.

Advanced Manufacturing in Fiber Technologies: Metallic Glasses

Explores the thermal drawing of metallic glasses and the fabrication of liquid metal-based fibers for various applications.

Turbulence and Symmetry