New millennium fibres / Tatsuya Hongu, Glyn O. Phillps & Machiko Takigami.
Publication details: Boca Raton ; New York : Woodhead publishing limited, c2005.Description: xii, 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781855736016
- 1855736012
- 22 677.4 HON
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CONTENT
1 Searching the roots of fibers
1.1 The importance of fiber in human life
1.2 What is high tech-fiber?
1.3 Natural versus synthetic fiber
1.4 Artificial fiber by biomimetrics
1.5 Definition of fibrous materials
etc
2 The new frontier fibers
2.1 Enlargement of the frontier in a fiber competition age
2.2 'Selection', 'concentration' and originality development
2.3 New fibers for the next generation have arrived
2.4 The distinction between high-tech fiber, frontier fiber and new frontier fiber
2.5 Key words for the near future
3 Superfibers
3.1 Description of superfibers
3.2 Development of superfiber in Europe, the United states and japan
3.3 Superfiber as a reinforcing material
3.4 Frontiers of superfiber applications
4 Carbon fiber expands towards the twenty-first century
4.1 PAN-based and pitch-based carbon fiber lead the world
4.2 A step of development of carbon fiber
4.3 The future of PAN-based carbon fiber
4.4 Bibliography
5 High function fiber
5.1 Prospects for high function fiber development
5.2 Sportswear using the high function fiber
5.3 Comfort function fiber
5.4 Biomimetic and intelligent fibers
etc
6 Frontier of health and comfort fibers
6.1 Fiber for health
6.2 Development of medical care materials to learn from 'smart fiber'
6.3 Development trend of comfortable fiber for health
6.4 Trend to seek for cleanliness and comfortableness
etc
7 Polymer fibers for health and nutrition
7.1 The concept and effects of dietary fiber
7.2 Hydrocolloid fibers
7.3 The main hydrocolloids
7.4 Dietary fiber- in health and disease
etc
8 Fibers in medical healthcare
8.1 Nonwoven
8.2 Alginate fibers
8.3 Superabsorbent fibers
8.4 Wound healing and polysaccharide fibers
etc
9 Developments in nanofibers for the new millennium
9.1 Background
9.2 Nanotechnology, materials and nanofiber
9.3 Creation of new industries
9.4 Researches and global developments of nanofiber
9.5 Further reading
9.6 References
Includes bibliographic references : p. 287-299
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