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FLOW paper published in ACS Nano

Publicerad 2018-05-14

FLOW researchers Nitesh Mittal, Krishne Gowda, Christophe Brouzet, Fredrik Lundell and Daniel Söderberg, together with colleagues from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, DESY (Germany) and Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH, have successfully managed to fabricate bio-fibers with mechanical properties superior to known natural or man-made bio-based materials.

It has been widely accepted by the scientific community that dragline spider silk is strongest bio-based material ever known. But based on the developed knowledge on fluid physics and surface chemistry of nanofiber suspension the team was able to fabricate continuous fibres/filaments that has 8 times the stiffness and higher strength compared to dragline spider silk, “The discovery is made possible by understanding and controlling the key fundamental process parameters essential for perfect nanostructuring, such as particle size, interactions, alignment, diffusion, network formation and assembly,” according to corresponding author D Söderberg. The result has received immediate attention and picked up by almost 60 media houses around the world including Yahoo, Digital Trends, Fox News and others (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/acs-sas050918.php).
 
The link to the article https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.8b01084

Innehållsansvarig:Ardeshir Hanifi
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Senast ändrad: 2018-05-14