Current technologies on conductive carbon aerogels are merely for application of super-capacitors, anodes lithium ion batteries and electrocatalysts. To our best knowledge, nanofibre (CNF) in biomedical chronic wound monitoring have not been reported yet. In this paper, we proposed a wounds pH sensor, which is based 3D free-standing CNF aerogel derived from pyrolyzed bacterial cellulose (p-BC) ...

The stiffness degradation of hybrid carbon/glass fibre composites are investigated under cyclic loading in three-point bending. compared to toughened interlayered with PA 6,6 nanofibre (veil) and a matrix 5% rubber particulate. With the incorporation veil into hybridised composite, interface experienced extensive localised delamination, due crack deflection, causing longitudinal cracking betwee...

A Pt-free cathode catalyst is necessary for proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) to enable the widespread use of these environmentally friendly energy conversion devices at affordable price. Herein, a pyrolyzed electrospun carbon nanofibre (CNF) prepared embedded with cobalt(II) phthalocyanine and iron(II) compounds provide transition metal N4-macrocyclic complex-derived sites (MNX) posse...

Abstract Polystyrene nanofibres reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals have been produced by electrospinning. Two different orientations of the were produced, namely aligned and random, these nanofibrous interleaves investigated both as-spun after thermal treatment. Aligned exhibited a 2500% increase in their Young’s modulus compared to randomly orientated materials, while ultimate tensile stre...

Electrospinning is a simple and inexpensive process that produces continuous nanofibres from the submicron diameter scale down to the nanometer diameter scale through an electrically charged jet of polymer solution. Previously, most of the electrospinning experiments have been carried out using single-needle arrangements. However, the low fluid throughput in needle spinning has limited the indu...

Membrane-disrupting antimicrobial peptides provide broad-spectrum defence against localized bacterial invasion in a range of hosts including humans. The most generally held consensus is that targeting to pathogens is based on interactions with the head groups of membrane lipids. Here we show that the action of LL-37, a human antimicrobial peptide switches the mode of action based on the structu...