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Fibers made by transforming materials

by RLE at MIT | Feb 20, 2015 | News Links

Graduate student Chong Hou holds a bag of drawn fibers. The fibers are as thin as 100 micrometers in diameter, and the material coating further enhances the strength of the fibers. Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT

New approach could enable low-cost silicon devices in fibers that could be made into fabrics. « more »

Related Links:

Fibers made by transforming materials (MIT News)

Crystalline silicon core fibres from ​aluminium core preforms (Nature Communications)

Professor Yoel Fink

Fibers@MIT

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