%0 Journal Article
%T Nanoparticles Deposition at Specific Sites Using Aligned Fiber Networks
%A Yaodong Yang
%A Ji Wang
%A Jie-Fang Li
%A D. Viehland
%A Amrinder Nain
%J Open Journal of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials
%P 55-58
%@ 2164-6805
%D 2012
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojinm.2012.24006
%X We report a new method to precisely locate inorganic nanoparticles at polymeric fiber crossing sites. Polymeric fibers are aligned by a previously reported non-electrospinning Spinneret based Tunable Engineered Parameters (STEP) polymeric fiber manufac- turing technique. Cross-hatch pattern (perpendicular) of polymeric fibers embedded with inorganic nanoparticles (e.g.: Fe(NO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub> or Bi(NO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>) were fabricated on top of each other and the fiber compositions re-acted during annealing process, thus, producing a desired phase (e.g.: BiFeO<sub>3</sub>) only at the crossing site. Our method of-fers an easy way to mass arrange and locate nanoparticles at designed positions on virtually all types of substrates.
%K Nanoparticles
%K Functional Materials
%K Fibre Technology
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=23428