Winged and Shaped Fiber Applications

Bio/Pharmaceutical 
Pharmaceutical Purification - The high surface area of the winged fiber can create complex  3D structures that enable the separation and filtration of biological and pharmaceutical drugs and injectables to produce purer and safer pharmaceuticals. 

Pharmaceutical Separation - Winged fibers can be formed with reactive polymers, reactive additives, or with reactive coatings that can selectively capture then release important bio and pharmaceuticals products sharply reducing production costs

Chromatography - The coupling of reactive chemistries with the Winged Fibers's deep channels and complex geometries can create high performance yet low cost chromatography columns reducing both the analytical and production elements of biologics and pharmaceuticals.

BioMaterials
Medical bandages - The deep channels of the winged fibers offer unique reservoirs for the storage and controlled release of medicinals from bandages reducing recovery times.

Tissue scaffolding - The combination of large diameter fibers with an exceptionally high surface area produces an open scaffold with the perfect surface texture for growing stem cells and regrowing critical structures like damaged bones.

Wound Dressings - Wound dressings made from winged fibers offer an intrinsically strong dressing with a tunable formation and super-high surface area perfect for maximizing clotting speeds and minimizing the healing time.

Filtration
Air - Winged fibers offer a a high surface area for maximizing particle capture while minimizing pressure drop resulting in filters that can produce cleaner air while reducing energy costs.

Aerosol - Small liquid particles are efficiently collected in the deep channels of the winged fiber enabling the collection of greater load with no increase in operating pressure resulting in reduced filter change-outs and lower operating costs.

Liquid - Because the winged fiber is a large fiber, it resists consolidation during use maintaining its open structure, efficiency, and service life.

Water Purification - Winged fibers can be designed to operate as pre-filters or final filters for the production of potable water bringing safe drinking water to every part of the world.

Oil Filtration - The winged fiber can be produced with a range of resins creating filters that are resistant to oil and other filtrates that might damage the filter.

Uranium Separation Seawater - Winged fibers are being identified as next-generation advances for increasingly demanding applications such as the separation of uranium from sea water.

Wipes
Disposable - The winged fiber can be produced with inexpensive resins and used in the most common household disposable wipes.

Reusable - The winged fiber can be produced as rugged and reusable household and industrial wipes with outstanding water and dust holding capacities enabling manufacturers the opportunity to enter new and emerging markets.

Cosmetic - Winged fibers produce a strong but soft wipe with deep channels that can both hold and apply skin creams as well as capture oils and makeup, perfect for cosmetic wipes.

Absorbants
Incontinence - The winged fiber's deep channels offer an unmatched design for quickly absorbing and wicking water, excellent for critical liquid management applications.

Hygiene - Winged fibers can be produced from a wide range of resins, melt additives, and coatings that can attack and kill biological contaminants for applications in today's increasingly demanding heath industry.

Insulation
Acoustical - The unusual cross-sectional geometry of winged fibers offer acoustic damping characteristics for the most demanding applications such as cars, audio environments, buildings.

Thermal - Winged fibers offer an amazingly effective way of trapping air in and around each fiber, just like nature's most effective insulation system, a feather.  Furthermore, the winged fiber's large diameter minimizes the change of poke-through, a common problem in other insulation media.  

Energy Storage
Battery Separators - Energy storage is one of today's most important technology challenges.  Winged fibers offer a new way of producing battery separators with exceptional surface area and uniformity.  In addition, the fiber's deep channels act like micro-filers continuously removing contaminates and extending battery's life.

Fuel Cells - Fuel cells have particularly challenging construction and performance characteristics. Winged fibers offer a way of creating a next-generation fuel-cell membrane with exceptional surface area, stability at elevated temperatures, and excellent resistance to chemical attack.

Protective Clothing
Facemasks - The open structure of winged fibers offers a lower pressure drop facemask that is more comfortable than masks made from small diameter melt-blown fibers alone.  In addition, the channels enable the creation of a mask with un-matched dust holding capacity, thus extending the life of the facemask and its cost-of-use.

Apparel
Sporting/Active/Outdoor - Today's modern sportswear requires the careful engineering of fibers and fabric structures that can manage moisture transport though the fabric and evaporation into the surrounding air.  The tunable geometry of the winged fiber quickly and efficiently moves moisture off the skin, through the fabric, and supports evaporation. Keeping a professional athlete or average active mom dry and cool.

Hospital Care 
Moisture Management - Careful control of sweat from hospital patients can make them comfortable, reduce bed sores, and minimize infections that too ofter arise from long-term bed-rest. Sheets and hospital wear made from winged fibers can address all of these common issues.

Thermal Management - When a patient's temperature rises uncontrollably, sheets of the winged fiber can be used to help bring the patent's body temperature back to normal.

Homeland Defense
HEPA Filters - Winged fibers can easily be used to construct HEPA quality filters that can filter 99.97% of 300nm particles.  In addition to protecting Federal and Defense installations, HEPA filters are also used in surgical rooms of hospitals and clean rooms used to produce modern semi-conductors.

Composites Structures
Artificial Leathers - The shape and large fiber diameter of the winged fiber create a novel substrate for the manufacture of artificial leather.  The winged fiber substrate can be coated for artificial leather applications or saturated for suede applications, the resulting product is soft, strong, and flexible.

Polymer-Fiber Composites - The very high surface area when coupled to the deep channel structure of the winged fiber make it an exceptional fiber for a range of polymer-fiber composites.