9 articles in this issue
Mario Christian Falconi, Dario Laneve and Francesco Prudenzano
A review on the recent progress in modeling and fabrication of medium infrared (Mid-IR) fiber lasers is reported. The main objective is to illustrate some recent examples of continuous wave optical sources at wavelengths longer than those commonly employe... see more
Hyeon Ung Shin, Ahmed Abutaleb, Dinesh Lolla and George G. Chase
In this work, palladium (Pd) nanoparticles were blended into a solution of a sacrificial polymer and an aluminum sol gel precursor to form alumina fibers containing the palladium particles. The polymer solution was electrospun into template submicron fibe... see more
Berenice Posada-Ramírez, Manuel Durán-Sánchez, Ricardo I. Alvarez-Tamayo, Jared Alaniz-Baylón, Guillermo Salceda-Delgado, Evgeny A. Kuzin and Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla
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Chanel Fortier, Michael Santiago Cintrón, James Rodgers, Krystal Fontenot and Donna Peralta
Botanical and field cotton trash comingled with Upland cotton lint can greatly reduce the marketability and quality of cotton. Trash found comingled with cotton lint during harvesting, ginning, and processing is of interest to the textile community. In th... see more
Matthew Hudspeth, Emily Jewell, Suzanne Horner, James Zheng and Weinong Chen
Single yarns have been impacted in a transverse fashion so as to probe the characteristics of resulting wave development. Longitudinal wave speeds were tracked in efforts to directly measure the yarn tensile stiffness, resulting in a slight increase in th... see more
Liang Huang, Chang Gao, Libo Yan, Xiaoxi Li, Gao Ma and Tianfeng Wang
The compressive performance of grouted mortarless masonry prisms strengthened with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites was investigated in this study. A total of 18 grouted mortarless masonry specimens, i.e., nine strengthened with GFRP (call... see more
Ram Chandra Neupane, Liyanto Eddy and Kohei Nagai
Poor detailing of the position of bearing pad over reinforced concrete (RC) corbel may lead to premature failure, which is undesired and structurally vulnerable. An appropriate retrofitting solution is necessary to ensure the functionality of such RC corb... see more
Piotr Miluski
The article presents fabrication and luminescent properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) fiber doped by Oxazine 170 perchlorate. The bright fluorescence of polymeric fiber (at molar fluorescent organic dye concentration 4.3 × 10-5) was characterize... see more
Silvia Simone, Francesco Galiano, Mirko Faccini, Marcel E. Boerrigter, Christiane Chaumette, Enrico Drioli and Alberto Figoli
In this work, poly(ethersulfone) (PES) ultrafiltration (UF) hollow fibers (HF) were modified by introducing TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs) in the polymeric dope, to endow them with photocatalytic properties. Different dope compositions and spinning conditi... see more