Background In recent years, nanotechnology has been playing an important role in
designing smart fabrics. Nanomaterials have been employed to introduce in a sustainable …

Recently, a large number of experimental and theoretical works have revealed a variety of
plasmonic nanostructures with the capabilities of Fano resonance (FR) generation. Among …

Increasing customer demand for durable and functional apparel manufactured in a
sustainable manner has created an opportunity for nanomaterials to be integrated into textile …

The field of hybrid optical fibers is one of the most active research areas in current fiber
optics and has the vision of integrating sophisticated materials inside fibers, which are not …

In the quest of finding the ideal polymer optical fiber (POF) for Bragg grating sensing, we
have fabricated and characterized an endlessly single mode microstructured POF (mPOF) …

Recent progress in combining multiple materials with disparate optical, electronic, and
thermomechanical properties monolithically in the same fiber drawn from a preform is …

Micro-and nanoscale metallic glasses offer exciting opportunities for both fundamental
research and applications in healthcare, micro-engineering, optics and electronics. The …

This paper reviews the topic of microstructured polymer fibres in the fields in which these
have been utilised: microstructured optical fibres, terahertz waveguides, and fibre‐drawn …

We discuss the topics of metamaterials—electromagnetic composites offering simultaneous
control of electric and magnetic fields through structuring on a fine scale compared with the …

Research involving the tetrahertz (THz) part of the electromagnetic spectrum, commonly
taken to be the region between 0.1 and 10 THz (3 mm to 30 µm), has seen rapid growth in …