Citation: ZHANG Maojie, WANG Wei, JU Xiaojie, XIE Rui, LIU Zhuang, CHU Liangyin. Research Progress on Controllable Fabrication of Functional Microfibers from Microfluidic Jet Templates[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry, ;2017, 34(11): 1240-1249. doi: 10.11944/j.issn.1000-0518.2017.11.170264 shu

Research Progress on Controllable Fabrication of Functional Microfibers from Microfluidic Jet Templates

ZHANG Maojie ^a,b ,
WANG Wei ^b,c ,
JU Xiaojie ^b,c,, ,
XIE Rui ^b,c ,
LIU Zhuang ^b,c ,
CHU Liangyin ^b,c

a.
College of Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, China
b.
School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
c.
State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Corresponding author: JU Xiaojie, juxiaojie@scu.edu.cn
Received Date: 1 August 2017
Revised Date: 4 September 2017
Accepted Date: 6 September 2017

Fund Project: the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education by the Ministry of Education of China 20130181120063the Sichuan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Foundation 2017JQ0027the Fok Ying-Tung Education Foundation for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China 151070Supported by the Sichuan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Foundation(No.2017JQ0027), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education by the Ministry of Education of China(No.20130181120063), the Fok Ying-Tung Education Foundation for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China(No.151070)

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Controllable fabrication of functional microfibers with diverse structures and compositions are important for their innovation and application. This review summarizes the recent progress on controllable fabrication of functional microfibers with solid, hollow, compartmental, and helical structures from diverse jet templates generated by microfluidics, and hopes to provide scientific guidelines for the design and controllable fabrication of novel functional microfibers.
- microfluidics,
- template synthesis,
- microfibers,
- jet templates
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