In-Fiber Structured Particles and Filament Arrays from the Perspective of Fluid Instabilities

Abstract

In-fiber structured particles and filament array have been recently emerging, providing unique advantages of feasible fabrication, diverse structures and sophisticated functionalities. This review will focus on the progress of this topic mainly from the perspective of fluid instabilities. By suppressing the capillary instability, the uniform layered structures down to nanometers are attained with the suitable materials selection. On the other hand, by utilizing capillary instability via post-drawing thermal treatment, the unprecedent structured particles can be designed with multimaterials for multifunctional fiber devices. Moreover, an interesting filamentation instability of a stretching viscous sheet has been identified during thermal drawing, resulting in an array of filaments. This review may inspire more future work to produce versatile devices for fiber electronics, either at a single fiber level or in large-scale fabrics and textiles, simply by manipulating and controlling fluid instabilities.