scholarly journals Applications of Silk in Biomedical and Healthcare Textiles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edison Omollo Oduor ◽  
Lucy Wanjiru Ciera ◽  
Edwin Kamalha
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Natural Fiber ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Environmental Friendly ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Protein Fiber ◽  
Manufacturing Methods ◽  
Process Ability

Global trends are shifting towards environmental friendly materials and manufacturing methods. Therefore, natural fiber applications are gaining traction globally. Silk, a natural protein fiber is one of the textile fibers that have recently received more attention due to the new frontiers brought about by technological advancement that has expanded the use of silk fiber beyond the conventional textile industry. The simple and versatile nature of silk fibroin process-ability has made silk appealing in wide range of applications. Silk is biocompatible, biodegradable, easy to functionalize and has excellent mechanical properties, in addition to optical transparency. This review chapter explores the use of silk in biomedical applications and healthcare textiles. Future trends in silk applications are also highlighted.

scholarly journals Textile technologies for the manufacture of three-dimensional textile preforms

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Ishmael ◽  
Anura Fernando ◽  
Sonja Andrew ◽  
Lindsey Waterton Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Tensile Properties ◽  
Glass Fibre ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Performance Characteristics ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Manufacturing Methods

Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of the current manufacturing methods for three-dimensional textile preforms while providing experimental data on the emerging techniques of combining yarn interlocking with yarn interlooping. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes the key textile technologies used for composite manufacture: braiding, weaving and knitting. The various textile preforming methods are suited to different applications; their capabilities and end performance characteristics are analysed. Findings Such preforms are used in composites in a wide range of industries, from aerospace to medical and automotive to civil engineering. The paper highlights how the use of knitting technology for preform manufacture has gained wider acceptance due to its flexibility in design and shaping capabilities. The tensile properties of glass fibre knit structures containing inlay yarns interlocked between knitted loops are given, highlighting the importance of reinforcement yarns. Originality/value The future trends of reinforcement yarns in knitted structures for improved tensile properties are discussed, with initial experimental data.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Acoustic Properties of Natural-Fiber-Based Materials and Composites: A Review

Textiles ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-85
Author(s):  
Tufail Hassan ◽  
Hafsa Jamshaid ◽  
Rajesh Mishra ◽  
Muhammad Qamar Khan ◽  
Michal Petru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sound Absorption ◽  
Natural Fiber ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Fiber Type ◽  
Alkali Treatment ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Synthetic Fiber ◽  
Sound Insulation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Wide Range

Recently, very rapid growth has been observed in the innovations and use of natural-fiber-based materials and composites for acoustic applications due to their environmentally friendly nature, low cost, and good acoustic absorption capability. However, there are still challenges for researchers to improve the mechanical and acoustic properties of natural fiber composites. In contrast, synthetic fiber-based composites have good mechanical properties and can be used in a wide range of structural and automotive applications. This review aims to provide a short overview of the different factors that affect the acoustic properties of natural-fiber-based materials and composites. The various factors that influence acoustic performance are fiber type, fineness, length, orientation, density, volume fraction in the composite, thickness, level of compression, and design. The details of various factors affecting the acoustic behavior of the fiber-based composites are described. Natural-fiber-based composites exhibit relatively good sound absorption capability due to their porous structure. Surface modification by alkali treatment can enhance the sound absorption performance. These materials can be used in buildings and interiors for efficient sound insulation.

Future trends in diagnosis using laboratory-on-a-chip technologies

Parasitology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 117 (7) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. TALARY ◽  
J. P. H. BURT ◽  
R. PETHIG
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Cancer Diagnostics ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Biotechnological Applications ◽  
Environmental Testing ◽  
Current State ◽  
Microelectronic Fabrication ◽  
Wide Range

There has been an enormous growth in the development of biotechnological applications, where advances in the techniques of microelectronic fabrication and the technologies of miniaturization and integration in semiconductor industries are being applied to the production of Laboratory-on-a-Chip devices. The aim of this development is to create devices that will perform the same processes that are currently carried out in the laboratory in reduced timescales, at a lower cost, requiring less reagents, and with a greater resolution of detection and specificity. The expectations of this Laboratory-on-a-Chip revolution is that this technology will facilitate rapid advances in gene discovery, genetic mapping and gene expression with broader applications ranging from infectious diseases and cancer diagnostics to food quality and environmental testing. A review of the current state of development in this field reveals the scale of the ongoing revolution and serves to highlight the advances that can be perceived in the development of Laboratory-on-a-Chip technologies. Since miniaturization can be applied to such a wide range of laboratory processes, some of the sub-units that can be used as building blocks in these devices are described, with a brief description of some of the fabrication processes that can be used to create them.

A Review: Natural Fiber as Reinforcement in Waste Paper Recycling and its Processing Methods

2013 ◽  
Vol 315 ◽  
pp. 443-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.K.A. Saferi ◽  
Y. Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Natural Fiber ◽  
Natural Fibers ◽  
Strength Properties ◽  
Hibiscus Cannabinus ◽  
Waste Paper ◽  
Kenaf Fiber ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Increased Strength ◽  
The Right

As demand for clean and healthy environment, people make many alternate solutions to save the environment. To save trees and overcome landfill of waste material and waste disposal by burning activities issues (cause to losing energy and increase pollution), people nowadays take recycling as a recovery. Recycling waste paper into new product increased over the years. Shortage of wood supply required new sources of natural fiber for papermaking industry. Many researchers have studied new sources of natural fibers from non wood materials, such as oil palm residues, kenaf (Hibiscus Cannabinus), pineapple leaf, banana, and coconut fiber. Kenaf is choose as reinforcement agent for recycled waste paper to maximize the use of kenaf in industry application due its wide range of advantages where pineapple leaf are choose as reinforcement agent because abundantly of these material in Malaysia. Reinforcement of natural fiber into waste paper during recycling process expected to increased strength properties of final product. To understand the right and suitable processing method for kenaf fiber and pineapple leaf leaves previous work from other researchers are studied to investigate pulping procedure of natural fiber and its effect on mechanical strength.

scholarly journals Advanced Microfluidic Technologies for Lipid Nano-Microsystems from Synthesis to Biological Application

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Bruna Carvalho ◽  
Bruno Ceccato ◽  
Mariano Michelon ◽  
Sang Han ◽  
Lucimara de la Torre
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Nanoparticles ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Biological Applications ◽  
Biological Application ◽  
Shell Nanoparticles ◽  
Cellular Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Core Shell Nanoparticles ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Lipid Structures

Microfluidics is an emerging technology that can be employed as a powerful tool for designing lipid nano-microsized structures for biological applications. Those lipid structures can be used as carrying vehicles for a wide range of drugs and genetic materials. Microfluidic technology also allows the design of sustainable processes with less financial demand, while it can be scaled up using parallelization to increase production. From this perspective, this article reviews the recent advances in the synthesis of lipid-based nanostructures through microfluidics (liposomes, lipoplexes, lipid nanoparticles, core-shell nanoparticles, and biomimetic nanovesicles). Besides that, this review describes the recent microfluidic approaches to produce lipid micro-sized structures as giant unilamellar vesicles. New strategies are also described for the controlled release of the lipid payloads using microgels and droplet-based microfluidics. To address the importance of microfluidics for lipid-nanoparticle screening, an overview of how microfluidic systems can be used to mimic the cellular environment is also presented. Future trends and perspectives in designing novel nano and micro scales are also discussed herein.

scholarly journals Global trends and growth dynamics in media industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-337
Author(s):  
Elena S. Pinchuk
Keyword(s):  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Rapid Transition ◽  
The Media ◽  
Key Aspects

The article reviews the trends in the media industry landscape formation based on content as a source of economic processes taking place in the industry. A wide range of expert opinions, reflecting the current changes was collected and analyzed. The life cycle of content is examined and the key trends in its production, packaging, distribution and consumption are highlighted. The attention is focused on the economic and technological factors that determine each of the trends, for instance, a change in the model of media consumption, the development and distribution of OTT platforms as a new way of delivering content, as well as a rapid transition to a new technological level. The latest statistical data from Russian and foreign sources support the reviewed trends. There is a separate description of the coronavirus pandemic impact consequences on the global media and the Russian industry in particular, and the key aspects of the development of the industry are identified in the current period on its basis.

A Wide Range of CO : H2 Syngas Proportions Enabled by Tellurization-Induced Amorphous Telluride-Palladium Surface

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kailei Cao ◽  
Yujin Ji ◽  
Shuxing Bai ◽  
Xiaoqing Huang ◽  
Youyong Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Reduction Reaction ◽  
Direct Production ◽  
Environmental Friendly ◽  
Electrochemical Co2 Reduction ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Palladium Surface ◽  
Co2 Reduction Reaction

The direct production of syngas via electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is a highly potential process for its environmental-friendly and product adjustability advantages. However, it is challenging to synthesize syngas...

A systematic analysis of identity based encryption (IBE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-356
Author(s):  
Aravind Karrothu ◽  
Jasmine Norman
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Resource Constraint ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Identity Based Encryption ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Identity Based

Light-weight cryptography is a major research area due to the minimization of the size of the devices utilized for such services. The associated security threats do increase as their applications are more now. Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) with its wide range of cryptographic schemes and protocols is specifically found suitable for low-end devices that have much resource constraint. This work describes various schemes and protocols in IBE. In this paper an analysis of IBE schemes and the various attacks they are prone to are discussed. The future trends are found to be very promising and challenging.

Intelligent Transformer: Possibilities and Challenges

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beldjajev Viktor ◽  
Roasto Indrek ◽  
Lehtla Tõnu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Autonomous Networks ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future

Intelligent Transformer: Possibilities and Challenges This paper covers the concept of an intelligent transformer that is a good candidate to replace a conventional low frequency transformer in the microgrids. As the power production and consumption can vary in a wide range, the new substations have to meet many requirements to guarantee reliable energy management in the autonomous networks. Different topologies of intelligent transformers can be used to meet these requirements. Therefore the advantages and disadvantages of the existing topologies were analyzed. The future trends and challenges are also discussed.

scholarly journals Millettia pinnata: a study on the extraction of fibers and reinforced composites

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. B. Mohankumara ◽  
Shraddha Prashant Thakare ◽  
Vijaykumar Guna ◽  
G. R. Arpitha
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stability ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Natural Fiber ◽  
Natural Fibers ◽  
Compositional Analysis ◽  
Morphological Properties ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Polypropylene Composites ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Millettia Pinnata

AbstractIn this work, the potential for using Millettia pinnata stalk for extracting cellulosic natural fibers and its subsequent use in reinforced composites was studied. The extracted fibers were characterized for its composition, mechanical, thermal stability and morphological properties. Compositional analysis showed that the fibers possessed 54% cellulose, 12% hemicellulose, 15% lignin and 11% ash. The tensile strength of the fiber was 310 MPa, which is comparable to cotton and linen. The tensile strength of the M. pinnata fiber-reinforced polypropylene composites was 17.96 MPa which was similar to other natural fiber-based composites. M. pinnata fibers appear promising for a wide range of applications including textiles and other typical composites applications.

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