Xiaoting Jia is in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, ...

Fibres are regularly found within the delivery cartridge (DC) and in the anterior chamber (AC) during phacoemulsification cataract surgery (PCS) and postoperatively. The purpose of this study was to ...

The 'fibremaxxing' trend has ballooned on social media, with many commentators calling fibre 'the new protein.' However, some predictions suggest that the consumption of fibre, like protein, will move ...

Manipulating fibres as thin as, or thinner than, a human hair has long been a technical challenge. While many “smart” materials can respond to stimuli such as ...

New research has shown that bio-based fibers caused higher mortality, and reduced growth and reproductivity, among earthworms -- a species critical to the health of soils globally -- than conventional ...

Wearing a face mask has become a way of life during the coronavirus pandemic, but it can also cause us to inhale harmful plastic fibres, according to a new study by Chinese scientists. The researchers ...

This is the first of eight posts on evolutionary research to celebrate Darwin’s bicentennial. If you were a designer tasked with creating a machine for collecting and processing light, the last thing ...

Fibres are the solid substance which has long chained structure and whose length is much larger than its breadth is called fibres. These are the polymers of so many simple molecules which are composed ...