Health & Personal Care
Healthcare can be ranked as one of the most important areas of nanofibers application not just to the extent of size but more importantly to the extent of benefits...
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Carbon Nanotube Membranes for Desalination and Water Purification: Challenges and Opportunities
Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are emerging as revolutionary materials for preparation of new membranes with high flux, high selectivity and low fouling (hydrophilic-, hydrophobic- and bio-fouling) properties.
Cost Competitive Bioplastics
With recent advances in the bulk fermentation technology and the biotechnology, the prices of biopolymers are now no more constraint for their large scale utilization. They are hardly two to three times more expensive than petroleum derived polymers.
Nanofibers Useful Also in Personal Protection Devices
Future attacks may include invisible hazards such as a variety of deadly poisonous chemicals through air or water without prior warning.
Ceramic foldable nanofibrous paper has been developed in Germany
A sophisticated nanostructure renders a wafer-thin paper made of electrically conductive vanadium pentoxide fibres both tough and pliable Scientists in Stuttgart are currently doing things to a ceramic, which would normally result in a pile of shards. They were the first to produce a paper-like material from a vanadium pentoxide ceramic which is as hard as copper, yet flexible enough to be rolled up or folded. The material is also different from other ceramics, as it is electrically conductive.
Titanium Dioxide Nanofibers Fabricated into Filter Membranes Can Create Energy, Produce Clean Water
A new wonder material that can generate hydrogen, produce clean water and even create energy.
Nanofibers help in the burn treatment
Burns and their consequences represent serious problem around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) an estimated 195,000 deaths are caused by burns per year. In 2004, nearly 11 million people with burns varying severity had to be treated worldwide. In the U.S. alone, in 2008, more than 410,000 cases of burns were registered, and 40,000 of them required hospitalization. Burns are more common in women and in children under 9 years of age and their occurrence also depends on the...
The proteinaceous nanofibers for cancer or diabetes detection
Cancer and diabetes are among the most frequent diseases and tens millions people are dying on consequences of these diseases each year. However, early detection of these diseases can save many lives, and when you look at it from an economic point of view, as well as save much money because the expenses incurred on any illness (drugs, chemotherapy, surgeries, hospitalization, etc.) at a later stage are much higher than in the early stage of the disease.