摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process for making fiber-on-end materials, wherein the materials can be used to make a variety of finished articles, and the process capable of making fiber-on-end materials of large planar dimensions, e.g., one meter wide or more, in an at least partly continuous or automated manner. SOLUTION: A fiber-on-end material is prepared by skiving material of a desired thickness from a billet to produce comprising a plurality of fibers arranged parallel to and fused to each other, wherein at least one step in the preparation or skiving of the billet is carried out in a continuous manner, and wherein the skived material is optionally contacted with a solvent to dissolve a component of the fibers. An article contains the fiber-on-end material, a process for affinity separation uses a fiber-on-end capillary array, and an article comprises the capillary array. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |