Toray’s new porous carbon fiber (top left, showing hollow central shaft) features a controllable, nano- or micro-scale pore structure throughout the entire fiber (top right). That porous structure ...

An update on recently reported research on porous carbon fibers shows how this material can be used in an industrial setting, marking an important step from the theoretical to application. An update ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech’s (Blacksburg, Va., U.S.) College of Science have used block copolymers to create carbon fibers with uniform porous structure with the aim of using the material for energy ...

Toray Industries, Inc., announced that it has innovated a carbon dioxide (CO2) separation membrane with a dual all-carbon structure. This comprises a hollow fiber porous carbon fiber as a support and ...

Personal heating products have always scared me. The idea of getting into a bed with an electric blanket appeals about as much as a romantic bath with my toaster. So when researchers propose a shirt ...

(Nanowerk News) Inspired by the microstructure and thermal insulation function of the polar bear hair, scientists have used a freeze-spinning technique to continuously fabricate silk fibroin solution ...

Recently, iodine has been increasingly used with zinc anodes to fabricate sustainable zinc–iodine (Zn–I 2) batteries (ZIBs) due to its high redox potential (I 2 /I-, 0.62 V vs. standard hydrogen ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electrospinning, a versatile method for fabricating nano- and microfibers, has the capability to produce fibers with diameters ranging from nanometers to micrometers out of ...