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Spinning New Fibers |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Richard Moen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 1,856 Words, 11,414 Characters |
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New fibers are among the many products of technology that have significantly impacted on society in the years since World War II. Nylon, rayon, orlon, dacron, polyester, and a host of other fibers have become household words because of their widespread use, primarily in textiles of all sorts.
Fibers made of glass have found wide application for home insulation and as a key component of fiberglass construction materials used in the manufacture of boats and numerous other valuable products. More recently, glass fiber is helping to transform communications as fiber-optic cables are rapidly replacing metal wires as carriers of phone messages around the world.
Now another generation of fibers is under development, whose impact may well be as great. At the University of Wisconsin-Mad...
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...nnecting rods. Beyond these identified needs, Dunn and Koutsky believe RIMS fibers have potential even they have not yet fathomed.
"With RIMS technology, we're running into new crystalline forms, and who knows what we'll find?" says Dunn. "In a sense, we're like the archaeologist standing in a hole looking at the top of a pyramid recently unearthed, and someone asks how deep it goes." vbcrlf
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