Recent advances in photoluminescent polymer optical fibers

Jakubowski, Konrad; Huang, Chieh‐Szu; Boesel, Luciano F.; Hufenus, Rudolf; Heuberger, Manfred

doi:10.1016/j.cossms.2021.100912

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“…[13] SAXS analysis of the hybrid material reveals a re-organisation of 125 dB/km -loss of intensity over long distances when compared to the 1dB/km putting them aside for long-range communication. [23] However, with the recent development of local digital networks (exchange of data over short distances), the interest in polymer optic fibres grew in the mid 20 th century. Their low-temperature processing, allowing the tuning of their properties by the addition of photoluminescent dyes, revived this research field.…”

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Tailoring Fibre Structure Enabled by X-ray Analytics for Targeted Biomedical Applications

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The rising interest in designing fibres via spinning techniques combining the properties of various polymeric materials into advanced functionalised materials is directed towards targeted biomedical applications such as drug delivery, wearable sensors or tissue engineering. Understanding how these functional polymers exhibit multiscale structures ranging from the molecular level to nano-, micro-and millimetre scale is a key prerequisite for their challenging applications that can be addressed by a non-destructive X-ray based analytical approach. X-ray multimodalities combining X-ray imaging, scattering and diffraction allow the study of morphology, molecular structure, and the analysis of nano-domain size and shape, crystallinity and preferential orientation in 3D arrangements. The incorporation of X-ray analytics in the design process of polymeric fibers via their nanostructure under non-ambient conditions (i.e. temperature, mechanical load, humidity…) allows for efficient optimization of the fabrication process as well as quality control along the product lifetime under operating environmental conditions. Here, we demonstrate the successful collaboration between the laboratory of Biomimetic Textiles and Membranes and the Center of X-ray Analytics at Empa for the design, characterisation and optimisation of advanced functionalised polymeric fibrous material systems.

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Section: Drug Deliverymentioning

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Tailoring Fibre Structure Enabled by X-ray Analytics for Targeted Biomedical Applications

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“…Among the used fluorescent materials are organic dyes (e.g., rhodamines such as rhodamine B), rare-earth complexes (including europium-or neodymium-based complexes) or other nanomaterials (for example, carbon-or silicon-based quantum dots, or metal oxides such as iron(III) oxide (Fe 2 O 3 ), titanium oxide (TiO 2 ) and barium sulfate (BaSO 4 )) [130,[141][142][143]. More examples can be found in the recent review paper by Jakubowski et al [21].…”

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“…The research progress in the field of POF has already been summarized in many review papers, such as [16,17] for POF fundamentals, [18] for production and spinning processes, [19][20][21] for dye-doped POF, [22] for POF gratings, [23,24] for multi-step index and graded index POF, [25][26][27][28][29] for sensor technology and applications, [30,31] for medical applications and [32] for illuminating textiles in general, including POF. To the best of the authors' knowledge, no systematic review on side-emitting polymer optical fibers and their fabrication methods has been published.…”

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“…It is also the most widely used method for luminescent POF. The first step in this process is to fabricate the preform into which the photoluminescent dye is introduced [21]. Typically, the preform, which has a correspondingly larger diameter than the final POF, is produced directly in a core-cladding structure in this process, although subsequent coating of a drawn POF core is also possible.…”

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An Overview on Methods for Producing Side-Emitting Polymer Optical Fibers

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An overview of the most important methods for producing side-emitting polymer optical fibers is given. Based on a systematic literature and patent search, the methods that are applied in practice and explored in research are identified. The fabrication methods are classified into four groups according to the physical phenomenon that hinders total internal reflection: bulk scattering, bending, surface perforations and luminescence. Subdivisions are made regarding the actual processing steps. The production methods are described in detail and discussed with respect to their customizability and applications.

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“…Our work is focused on POFs essentially based on polymers. Actually, POFs present the key interest of various new researches, since they have more advantages in tensile and strain strength, flexibility, and affordable hazardous installation profitability [ 43 , 44 ]. Instead of SOF (silica optical fibers), that are mainly oriented to the telecom domain, for both backbone and access networks, due to their transmission capability of high capacity streams with minimum attenuation losses and dispersion [ 45 – 47 ], POFs, and since their appearance in 1960s, have known a large scale evolution, where they have been categorized in different types regarding their application domains and characteristics [ 48 ].…”

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Studying the effect of polymethyl methacrylate polymer opticals fibers (POFs) on the performance of composite materials based on the polyether ether ketone (PEEK) polymer matrix

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More recently, various techniques have been implemented for the sensors manufacturing purpose, such as fiber Bragg gratings fibers (FBG) that allows variable core refractive index suitable for a large scale of measurements types, fiber optic evanescent waves (FOEW) for water parameters measurement, microstructured and crystal photonic optical fibers, polymers optical fiber (POFs), and so on. In this perspective, the objective of this work is to study the reliability and the origin of the resistance of each fiber-matrix interface of the composite materials PMMA/PEEK, Topas/PEEK, and Topas-Zeonex/PEEK. The genetic simulation is based on the probabilistic approach of Weibull to calculate the damage at the interface by crossing the two damages of the matrix and the fiber respectively. The results show that the PMMA/PEEK composite is the most resistant to the mechanical stresses applied compared to those Topas/PEEK and Topas-Zeonex/PEEK; these results were confirmed by the level of damage to the interface observed for the studied materials. The performed calculations are in good agreement with the analytical results of Cox, where he demonstrated that Young’s modulus of fibers have an important influence on the shear strength of the fiber-matrix interface of composite materials. Based on the obtained results, the present study gives the opportunity for the proposed materials (PMMA/PEEK and Zeonex/PEEK) to be as potential candidates for the smart digital applications and telecoms aims.

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Recent advances in photoluminescent polymer optical fibers

Cited by 25 publications

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Tailoring Fibre Structure Enabled by X-ray Analytics for Targeted Biomedical Applications

Tailoring Fibre Structure Enabled by X-ray Analytics for Targeted Biomedical Applications

An Overview on Methods for Producing Side-Emitting Polymer Optical Fibers

Studying the effect of polymethyl methacrylate polymer opticals fibers (POFs) on the performance of composite materials based on the polyether ether ketone (PEEK) polymer matrix

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