Characteristics and Applications of Luminous Fibers

Abstract

The luminous fiber is a kind of functional material which is made from rare earth luminescent powders. This fiber is composed of raw material and long lasting rare earth luminescent material, and made by a special spinning process. If luminous fibers absorb visible light and store lighting energy, then it will continue to light in dark for more than 10 hours. The luminous fiber can shows a variety of colors, such as red, yellow, green and blue in the light, and display all sorts of colors, such as red, yellow, blue and green in the dark. The advantages of this fiber are with brilliant color, no requirement of energy consumption, and a kind of environmentally friendly high-tech product. This paper discusses characteristics and applications of luminous material and fibers, and the purpose is to promote such material into the potential market.