{"id":33889,"date":"2017-01-27T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/nanometric-imprinting-on-fiber"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:53:15","slug":"nanometric-imprinting-on-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/nanometric-imprinting-on-fiber","title":{"rendered":"Nanometric Imprinting on Fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanometric-imprinting-on-fiber.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about EPFL here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/epfl\/\">EPFL<\/a>\u2019s Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, which is run by Fabien Sorin, have come up with a simple and innovative <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about technique here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/technique\/\">technique<\/a> for drawing or imprinting complex, nanometric patterns on hollow polymer fibers. Their work has been published in <em>Advanced Functional Materials<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The potential applications of this <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about breakthrough here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/breakthrough\/\">breakthrough<\/a> are numerous. The imprinted designs could be used to impart certain optical effects on a fiber or make it water-resistant. They could also guide stem\u2013<a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about cell here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/cell\/\">cell<\/a> growth in textured fiber channels or be used to break down the fiber at a specific location and point in time in order to release <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about drugs here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/drugs\/\">drugs<\/a> as part of a smart bandage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/new-discovery-nanometric-imprinting-on-fiber\/\">http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/new-discover...-on-fiber\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at EPFL\u2019s Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, which is run by Fabien Sorin, have come up with a simple and innovative technique for drawing or imprinting complex, nanometric patterns on hollow polymer fibers. Their work has been published in Advanced Functional Materials. The potential applications of this breakthrough are numerous. The imprinted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58984,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889\/revisions\/58984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}