Designer patterned functional fibers via direct imprinting in thermal drawing

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 3842 - 9
• Main Authors: Wang, Zhe, Wu, Tingting, Wang, Zhixun, Zhang, Ting, Chen, Mengxiao, Zhang, Jing, Liu, Lin, Qi, Miao, Zhang, Qichong, Yang, Jiao, Liu, Wei, Chen, Haisheng, Luo, Yu, Wei, Lei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 31.07.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/301/930/543; 639/925/927/1021; 639/925/927/511; 639/925/930/1032; Electronic devices; Elongated structure; Elongation; Fabrication; Fibers; Gas absorption; Grooves; High resolution; Humanities and Social Sciences; Lasers; Mass production; multidisciplinary; Nanostructure; Polyethylene terephthalate; Polymers; Process parameters; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Smart materials; Textiles; Wearable technology

Creating micro/nanostructures on fibers is beneficial for extending the application range of fiber-based devices. To achieve this using thermal fiber drawing is particularly important for the mass production of longitudinally uniform fibers up to tens of kilometers. However, the current thermal fibe...