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Nanofibres

EcoTitan from Irema

1 April 2015

Filter media manufacturer Irema is now making its own compact fully synthetic filter systems for industrial filtration applications featuring engineered nanofibre layers.

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Silicon nanofibres boost battery power

1 April 2015

Researchers have developed a material based on silicon nanofibres they believe can be used to boost the capacity of batteries in electric vehicles and personal electronics.

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New range of halogen-free nanocoatings

1 April 2015

Belgium’s Europlasma introduced an expanded range of its Nanofics nanocoatings at the recent Filtech exhibition and conference in Cologne, Germany, on 24–26 February 2015.

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Elmarco demonstrates the possibilities

1 April 2015

The Czech Republic’s Elmarco has been arguably the leading developer of commercial nanofibre technology over the past decade, most recently with its Nanospider system.

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Physics research could lead to improved electrospinning

1 January 2015
Cooperative research in the USA and Spain could ultimately lead to improvements to the electrospinning of small-diameter fibres.
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Combined yarns make a battery

1 July 2014
Researchers in China have made a lithium-ion battery by pairing two stretchable and bendable yarns and claim a 10-cm-long piece weighing just 0.08 g can power a string of light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
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Process to make nanoscale polypropylene fibres

1 July 2014
Tokyo, Japan-based JX Nippon Oil and Energy is commercializing a process to make polypropylene (PP) fibres with diameters in the range 300-500 nm.
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Strong web of nanofibres

1 May 2014
Researchers in the USA say they have succeeded in electro spinning a solvent-free nano-scale web that is strong enough to be handled for subsequent treatment.
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Electrospun polyacrylonitrile nanofibres are strong and tough

1 June 2013
Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibres that are both strong and tough - properties that are typically mutually exclusive in engineered materials - have been developed by a team of engineers in the USA.
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Bayer MaterialScience closes carbon nanotubes business

1 June 2013
Bayer MaterialScience of Leverkusen, Germany, is to stop all its work on research, production, commercialization and development of applications for carbon nanotubes (CNTs).
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Nanofibre mats that respond dramatically to temperature change

1 May 2013
Nanofibre-based articles that switch one or more of their properties in response to some external change are being studied by researchers in the USA.
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Wire-form collector helps align electrospun fibres

1 May 2013
Researchers at a UK university are experimenting with the use of an electrically connected wire card (13) as the collector for an electrospinning device.
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Aerogels of carbon nanotubes

1 April 2013
Chinese researchers have succeeded in making highly porous solids consisting of a three-dimensional (3D) network of carbon nanotubes (CNTs).
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Silica nanofibres for composites

1 March 2013
UK-based research aimed at developing the strongest silica nanofibres in the world is attracting interest from composite manufacturers in the aviation, marine and safety markets.
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Saudi Basic Industries and Solvay among investors in production technology for nanofibres

1 March 2013
The USA-based developer of a unique technology, called Forcespinning, for producing nanofibres says it has won funding worth US$13 million, which will allow it to fulfil a growing number of orders, an
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High-speed production of core-sheath fibres

1 January 2013
A US company claims to have made dramatic progress in the development of an electrospinning technology with a high throughput for core-sheath fibres.
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Aramid nanofibres now ready for mass production

1 June 2012
A Japanese company claims it has become the first to develop aramid nanofibres for mass production.
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Electrospinning polyolefins

1 March 2012
Methods for electrospinning polymer melts to form nanofibres of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) in commercially viable quantities have been revealed by Elmarco sro of Liberec, Czech Republic.
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Teijin polyester fibres get smaller

1 February 2012
A finer version of the nano-scale polyester fibre called Nanofront has been launched by Teijin Fibers Ltd of Tokyo, Japan.
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Process for the formation of conductive polyaniline

1 December 2011
Scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus, USA, have won a US Patent (8 038 907) for their process for forming aligned nanofibres of polyaniline.
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Society of Manufacturing Engineers rewards nanotechnology

1 April 2010
A process for manufacturing nanofibres that is significantly cheaper and safer than existing methods has won recognition from the USA's Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
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Nanofibre nonwovens move towards commercial maturity

1 September 2009
The commercial availability of industrial-scale systems for nanofibre web manufacturing will see rapid adoption of the technology, with cheaper carbon nanotube-based products likely to follow, reports
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The functionalization of the surfaces of polymer nanofibres

1 December 2005
Qufu Wei,Robert Mather,Heng Ye,Fenglin Huang and Wenzheng Xu explore the potential that surface functionalization of polymer nanofibres,based on changes in both physical and chemical attributes,offers
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