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Wood Pulp‐Based Optically Transparent Film: A Paradigm from Nanofibers to Nanostructured Fibers
Author(s) -
Yano Hiroyuki,
Sasaki Shouzou,
Shams Md. Iftekhar,
Abe Kentaro,
Date Takeshi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.201300444
Subject(s) - materials science , nanofiber , agglomerate , pulp (tooth) , composite material , optical fiber , nanotechnology , optics , medicine , pathology , physics
A low thermally expanded transparent film is developed by exploiting wood fibers that can be considered to be nanostructured fibers in which individual nanofibers do not significantly agglomerate and are oriented parallel to the fiber direction. It is thereby demonstrated that paper, used since ancient times, will be a next‐generation optical material.