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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Smart textiles"”.
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Electrospun polymer fibers for triboelectric energy harvesting applications in smart textiles
Wearable biosensors embedded into smart textiles have the potential to revolutionise healthcare by enabling the measurement of vital signs in real-time. However, the deployment of these devices is hindered by their power requirements. Current batteries are too bulky and rigid, and require frequent …
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Design and Construction of Smart Structures for Technical Textiles
The smart textiles sector is becoming increasingly significant within the technical textiles industry, contributing an increasing number of products and applications using a number of different technologies. This research is concerned primarily with electrically conductive smart textiles and, for …
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The effect of annealing on the microstructure of Cu-Al-Ni-Mn shape memory alloy microwires
… of microwires with the potential application in smart textiles. Wire microstructure and composition, transition temperatures, and strain recovery were analyzed after the wires were subjected to varying annealing times and temperatures. These data were used to determine the ideal conditions to …
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Flexible-stretchable woven electronic textile system : a tailored multi-modal bodysuit for spatiotemporal physiological and physical activity monitoring
… have further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Several challenges remain, as most of the current efforts in textile electronics focus on 'niche' applications and lack of sensing modalities, as well as large-scale coverage. We introduce a new platform of flexible-stretchable …
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Microsecond Time Synchronization for Computing Fiber Networks
… sensing and computation within fibers and smart textiles, with implications for on-body audio perception and distributed sensing in flexible electronics.
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Multi-Material Fiber Fabrication and Applications in Distributed Sensing
… for specific applications, such as in smart textiles and wearable sensors. By adopting the fiber thermal drawing technique, we have designed and fabricated multi-material electrode-embedded polymer fibers with distributed sensing capabilities. Polymers sensitive to temperature and …
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Engineering Biomedical and Bioinspired Fiber Devices via Thermal Drawing
… as elements in broad fields from conventional textiles and optics to smart textiles and electronics. One of the fiber fabrication methods, thermal drawing process, has a unique strength on a scalable production of multimaterial fibers. Based on various properties of multiple materials in a …
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Fabrication and characterization of conducting polymer microwires
… wide range of potential applications, including smart textiles that incorporate sensing, actuation, and data processing. The development of garments that integrate these functionalities over wide areas (i.e. the human body) requires the production of long, highly conductive, and mechanically …
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Dervish Sound Dress; An Investigation of Wearable Technology Using Computer Music and Haptic Mechanisms for Live Performance
… of computer music, fashion design, digital art, smart clothing, biometrics, cultural traditions and performance. Dervish Sound Dress is a wearable piece of technology; a garment that is inspired by the sacred ‘turning’ experience of the Whirling Dervishes or the Mevlevi Sufi order in Turkey known …
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Multifunctional Multimaterial Fibers for Sensing and Modulation in Wearable and Biomedical Applications
… devices can be woven into fabrics to create smart textiles or used as implantable probes for various biomedical purposes. To meet the requirements of human-machine interface, these fiber devices need to be flexible, robust, scalable, and capable of integrating complex structures and multiple …
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Sculptured computational objects with smart and active computing materials
… or develop a rich artistic vocabulary for it. Smart and active sculptural computing materials are presented as a solution to this problem. Practically, smart computing materials reduce the number of separate, rigid, and square prefabricated parts required to create physical computing objects. …
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Multifunctional Polymer Fiber Probes for Biomedical Application
… tumor/cancer treatment, soft robotics, and smart textiles. This Ph.D. dissertation summarizes my research on the fabrication and validation of thermally drawn multifunctional polymer fiber probes for modern biomedical applications, primarily in the fields of neural interfaces and tumor …
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Switching hybrid polymers with physically and covalently entrapped organic photochromes
… reversible markings, printing applications and smart textiles.
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Occupying Time: Design, technology, and the form of interaction
… converge with fashion and architecture in smart textiles and intelligent environments – even as it turns us back, in new ways, to traditional design disciplines and practices. In this context, design is not only about the spatial or physical form of objects, but the form of interactions …
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Influence of Structural Disorder on Charge Transport and Stability in Organic Field-Effect Transistors with Molecular Semiconductors
… suitable for applications in space exploration, smart textiles, automotive technologies, and other fields. Ultimately, this research aims to enhance our understanding of charge transport mechanisms and device degradation in organic thin-film transistors. Additionally, it seeks to pave the way for …
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Textiles as a meta-wearable: Studies on textiles as an information infrastructure
… of these advanced enabling technologies with textiles to transform the traditionally passive, yet pervasive, textiles into an interactive intelligent information infrastructure for the demanding end-user and facilitate pervasive and personalized mobile information processing. The primary …
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The Development and Use of Non-Screen Based Interactive Textile Objects for Family Communication
In this modern landscape where families are spending increasing time living separately, due to parental separation, work travel, and illness, current communication technologies do not fully support the needs of intimate family communication in families with young children, aged two to nine. …
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Application-oriented development of thermoplastic polyurethanes with shape memory properties
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials, that are capable of changing their shape in response to an external stimulus, typically a change in (ambient) temperature. This change in shape is commonly triggered after a thermomechanical treatment, enabling them to return to their original …
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Development of applications of liquid crystalline elastomers from Materials to Applications
Liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) is a class of "smart polymer" with constituent molecules called mesogens, exhibiting orientational ordering. These mesogens can self-assemble into many types of ordering and transition to being isotropic reversibly subjected to external stimuli. In the last four …
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Self-Powered Wearable Sweat Monitoring using 2D WS2 Textile Integrated Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Future Personalized Healthcare
… imparts functional electronic characteristics to textiles in a similar manner to how traditional dyes impart colour, allowing scalable integration of sensing functionalities directly onto wearable fabrics. The 2D WS2-coated textiles were first evaluated for sweat sensing performance using …
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