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A. S. Nain, J. A. Phillippi, M. Sitti, J. MacKrell, P. G. Campbell and C. Amon, “Control of Cell Behavior by Aligned Micro/Nanofibrous Biomaterial Scaffolds Fabricated by Spinneret-Based Tunable Engineered Parameters (STEP) Technique,” Small, Vol. 4, No. 8, 2008, pp. 11531159. doi:10.1002/smll.200800101

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• TITLE: Nanoparticles Deposition at Specific Sites Using Aligned Fiber Networks

  AUTHORS: Yaodong Yang, Ji Wang, Jie-Fang Li, D. Viehland, Amrinder Nain

  KEYWORDS: Nanoparticles; Functional Materials; Fibre Technology

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials, Vol.2 No.4, October 17, 2012

  ABSTRACT: 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(NO3)3 or Bi(NO3)3) were fabricated on top of each other and the fiber compositions re-acted during annealing process, thus, producing a desired phase (e.g.: BiFeO3) 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.