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SUBMITTER: Tian Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5714965 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tian Ye Y Zhu Pingan P Tang Xin X Zhou Chunmei C Wang Jianmei J Kong Tiantian T Xu Min M Wang Liqiu L
Nature communications 20171020 1
Large-scale and high-efficient water collection of microfibers with long-term durability still remains challenging. Here we present well-controlled, bioinspired spindle-knot microfibers with cavity knots (named cavity-microfiber), precisely fabricated via a simple gas-in-water microfluidic method, to address this challenge. The cavity-microfiber is endowed with unique surface roughness, mechanical strength, and long-term durability due to the design of cavity as well as polymer composition, thus ...[more]