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a patent-pending technology that uses a growing organism and byproducts from food production (oat hulls from New york, cotton hulls from Texas and rice hulls from Arkansas) to create a strong composite material.
#Knitted Supercapacitors to Power Smart Shirts Researchers from Drexel University in collaboration with the U s. Naval academy, have invented a way to embed activated carbon particles into different types of yarn to form a knitted textile that can store
and electronics integrated into smart clothing. Smart fabrics, which incorporate different types of sensors into garments, have been in development for decades.
However, only in recent years have started we seeing the first consumer smart garments reaching the market,
including biometric smartwear that can monitor an athlete's health (like the ones made by Hexoskin,
Creating a flexible energy storage that can be integrated into the fabric has been the goal of several research groups around the world.
Trying to create a textile that can store energy without the use of exotic, expensive materials,
into a cellulose-based yarn made from cotton, linen, bamboo, or viscosell of which have been tested electrochemically by Drexel team at the A j. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute,
and when the yarn was swelled partially, pressure was applied to it in order to embed the carbon into the fiber surface.
Finally, the yarn was spooled and rinsed with water, which helped remove the ionic liquid and re-solidify the cellulose.
Durkin was able to develop a small NFW machine to continuously create tens of meters of yarn at a time."
Although we will probably not be using energy storage textiles to power our smartphones any time soon due to the low energy density of the current technology,
because she noticed the growing number of e textiles on the market that incorporated knitted components,
which was code-named roject Goliathin email threads. As detailed by The Verge lawyers from the MPAA and half a dozen major studios refer to oliathas their biggest enemy in their battle with online piracy,
we wouldn be wearing the clothes we have today. Henry ford led the second Industrial revolution in the 20th century with large assembly-line factories being built on a mass economy of scale.
Some result in carbon composites that are floppy like a cotton sheet. Others are springy like a sheet of metal.
It looks like a climbing safety harness made of nylon mesh and spandex combined with cables that snake down the wearer s legs.
Unlike some other exoskeletons it could not help paralyzed people walk (see Stand Alone. But people with muscle weakness such as those who have suffered strokes could use it to walk more easily
The machine is designed to fit easily under clothes and novel soft sensors made of silicone rubber are integrated into the suit.
You can use an ipad to tap between different realistic-looking fabric options that change via an overhead projector.
Vizera also digitizes upholstery options by scanning materials like fabric and leather in a way that aims to keep the colors,
The company then uses the 3-D model to simulate upholstering the couch with the digitized fabric,
Elnaz Davoudi, a design consultant at Cre8 a Couch, says having Vizera in the store makes it easier for them to visualize how the fabrics theye considering will look on a real couch.
Imprint has also been in talks about the use of its batteries in clothes and eird parts of your body like your eye,
and indeed the entire social fabric of an urban area. Many technologists seem not to care
Oslo is an attempt to pull together these disparate threads into a feed of information that can help individual people get work done.
The tiny molecular machine threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain-a sort of axle-and squeezes the rings together,
#Now, make sense of your dog woof North carolina State university scientists have developed a technology designed to improve communication between dogs and humans.
Among others, researchers at the University of Southampton have been exploring ways of using additive manufacturing to produce optical fibers.
The light is projected through each well and collected by 96 plastic optical fibers. A custom-designed smartphone app then reads the resulting images
because the much anticipated 3d printer for clothes is finally here! The Electroloom team has launched recently its Kickstarter campaign,
After the light is projected through each well, 96 individual plastic optical fibers in the attachment collect a multitude of images.
#Are You Ready to 3d Print Your Own Clothes? Danit Peleg final design project at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel was a 100%3d printed fashion line inspired by Eugene Delacroix 1830 painting iberty Leading
She spent 9 months researching and a total of 2, 000 hours 3d printing the textiles for her garments.
I also wanted to have the freedom to make my own textiles as opposed to depending on what
and created different patterns to develop a lacelike textile for her other four garments. Peleg says that each piece took about 400 hours to complete from the idea to the final result
and uses it to push the rings together. he tiny molecular machine threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain--a sort of axle--and squeezes the rings together,
stays hygienic and made of 100%American Cotton and of course its recyclable and certified by international labs for successfully passing the health checks.
Hydrophobic technology is applied to the fabrics rather than previously used technology that was spray-on application.
and is a subsidiary of Atomik Textile group which specialized in high-tech knit fabrics and apparel since 1989.
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#Researchers Create Unexpected Shapes of Mesoscale Atoms In the prestigious physics journal"Physical Review Letters"a team of researchers from the Institute of Physical chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) in Warsaw,
From smartphones and tablets to smart clothing and wearables, mcube is enabling a new era called the nternet of Moving Things where the movement
#Gold nanoparticle Coating on Cotton Fibers Can Help Kill Bacteria Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses. otton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials,
who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. n a nanoscale world and that is our world we can control cellulose-based materials one atom at a time.
The Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors so instead of adding electronics to fabrics,
he converts the fabric into an electronic component. reating transistors and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
and textiles, enabling the creation of unique wearable electronic devices, Hinestroza said. Taking advantage of cotton irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. he layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always,
Hinestroza said, ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
Abbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
or analyze sweat, sewn into pillows to monitor brain signals or applied to interactive textiles with heating and cooling capabilities. revious technologies have achieved similar functionalities,
but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns, which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting,
Hinestroza said. Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
but the new surfaces can efficiently kill 99.9 percent of bacteria, which could help in warding colds, flu and other diseases.
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses. e want to transform traditional natural fibers into true engineering materials that are multifunctional
#Researcher Integrates"Motherboard"in Textiles for Determining Sleep Cycles The specialist in infrared physics found a way for the technology to reach the majority of the population,
and found that textiles are used most, so he decided to turn them intelligent. The entrepreneur exemplifies that he can"integrate"in the sheets or bedspreads a card with sensors capable of measuring sleep cycles."
"Vacas Jacques designed the card for this type of textile (linen. The technology also includes a module,
therefore can various textiles smart and not only one"."Vacas Jacques, who worked at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT)- details that development was achieved with the support of the Innovation Park De La Salle in Guanajuato, center state in Mexico.
and easily printable conducting ink that can be patterned on textiles with a single printing step.
#Role of Smart textiles in Remote Healthcare Kathryn Wills, of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Coventry University, discusses the role smart textiles have to play in remote healthcare in an article for the Guardian's Healthcare Professionals Network.
The ability to remotely monitor patients'conditions as they go about their daily lives could revolutionise healthcare,
Kathryn believes that new research integrating electronics directly into the fabric of clothing could move us a step closer to this smart technology.
Smart textiles, which allow accurate and reliable electronic sensors to be built into everyday clothing, could be the solution.
without being affected by clothes moving on the body.""The technique has been demonstrated successfully on a variety of materials including cotton, polyester and linen.
The next step is to further develop the chemical deposition process on other materials, before scaling the process up for commercialisation.
and Coventry University's Functional Materials Group to work on smart textiles. Their work was exhibited recently at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015 5
"The tiny molecular machine threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain--a sort of axle--and squeezes the rings together,
The light projects through each well and is collected by 96 individual plastic optical fibers in the attachment.
Jenny Cross, Global Sustainability Director for Mohawk Industries maker of Smartstrand carpets that use renewable nylons explains:
Products including pistachios, almonds, citrus, stone fruit, cotton, and grapes are grown here and distributed all over the United states
In the end, a slow-spinning black hole can eat up more matter than a fast spinner.''The massive black holes in Elrigs could be gorging themselves on more matter for a longer period of time,
which uses 3d cameras to track the viewer and display clothes and other items virtually,
Together, Samsung said the technology creates a'virtual fitting room'that will be used to help people see themselves wearing clothes
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
The device contains an inflatable nylon balloon that stored inside a small pouch next to a carbon dioxide cartridge.
and the nylon inflatable can be deflated and packed back into its pouch, ready for use when a new gas cylinder is installed.
and manufacturing custom 3d fabrics from a computer, with no sewing required. the printer works with custom polyester and cotton blends,
that are shipped as liquids in pods that are placed into the machine prior to each job. the team consists of marcus foley, aaron rowley both biomedical/mechanical engineers and joseph white,
and binds the nano fibers together into a cohesive seamless fabric. once removed from the mold,
and fold just like the most commonly known fabrics. the electroloom prototype can only mold 800mm by 900mm sizes,
#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns
or knitted to make fabrics for clothing. Professor Tilak Dias of the Advanced Textiles Research Group of the School of art & Design, claims that the embedded chips annot be seen in situ by the naked eye He has patented the technology,
which he believes has the potential to be used for security in stores and also for clothes that are donated to charity to be tracked around the world.
Professor Dias writes: f an RFID chip is embedded into a shirt, for instance, it will provide a much greater level of anti-theft
Sealed inside resin micro pods within yarns, the fabrics incorporating RFIDS can be run through washing machines
either side of the chips are embedded in yarn fibres and act as an antenna. Measuring one millimetre by 0. 5 millimetre in size
which is communicated usually via barcode. n relation to recycled clothes, charities would be able to sort garments much quicker perhaps even in an automated way to identify the types of clothing that are suitable for different countries according to their requirements,
The water that we use to wash our clothes clean our bodies and stay hydrated is at risk.
(and that of others) to apply negative stiffness to ballistics by using nylon (rather than a sponge) as their build material.
distinguished engineer and director of IBM Watson Life, told Foxnews. com. ood plays such a crucial role in the social and cultural fabric of our society,
Nanowires are extremely thin nanocrystal threads used in the development of new electronic components like transistors and solar cells.
Ph d.,study co-author and the Georgia Power Professor of Polymers, Fibers and Textiles in UGA's college of family and consumer sciences."
This needle is positioned then near a magnet that is fixed atop a spinning circular platter. As the magnet passes by the tip of the needle,
The machine then threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain (an axle) and squeezes them together.
and threads of metal soldered onto the surface) to exploit a phenomenon known as magnetoresistance to develop a high electric resistance,
#Silk-based functional inks put biosensor data on your fingertips Although we've seen"bio-inks"that allow sensors to be drawn directly on a person's skin
Researchers at Tufts University have developed now silk-based inks containing bacteria-sensing agents that can withstand the rigors of inkjet printing,
The breakthrough comes courtesy of a purified silk protein called fibroin which is strong enough to stabilize various types of compounds, such as antibodies, enzymes, nanoparticles, antibiotics and growth factors, by acting as a protective"cocoon"."
if we were able to develop an inkjet-printable silk solution, we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
The researchers doped the silk ink base with different bio-compounds to create a set of functional,
inkjet-printable silk inks and tested them. Their creations included: an ink with bacterial-sensing polydiacetylenes (PDAS),
(and high-priced) Whirlpool washer-and-dryer set are interested probably more in coming home to clothes that aren wrinkled than they are about saving a few dollars a year by shifting their dryer cycle to a time
#tronger than steelclothes from yeast-engineered silk Bolt Threads, a Bay Area startup, which announced a new $40 million round funding on Thursday,
The company has developed a synthetic, rogrammablealternative to larval-or arachnid-produced silk. Engineered using proteins derived from yeast,
explained in a post on Wednesday. pply those properties to textiles, and you get a fabric with 100 times the strength of reinforced steel but that is as soft and flexible as the most comfortable fabrics.
Bolt has yet to decide if it going to make its own clothes or supply the fabric to third-party apparel companies, or both.
Still, Silicon valley is betting that Bolt silk could supplant petroleum-based textiles such as polyester, Lycra,
and nylon, or even natural but resource-intensive fibers like cotton. With plans to launch high-performance productshink mountain-climbing apparel and other elite athletic wears early as 2016
Bolt isn wasting any time. e are on the verge of a total transformation of consumer apparel that will reach every person on the planet,
Kim and Chau said. y producing silk in the lab, Bolt Threads doesn have to rely on thousands of silkworms, a species struggling due to climate change.
And its production methods give Bolt Threads great flexibility to innovate and be efficient in its use of natural resources.
While other companies have made similar advancements in the past, many stumble in the transition from lab to market,
they added. Bolt, on the other hand is prepared to scale up production to manufacture tens of millions of pounds of fabric.
said Kim and Chau. he achievements of Bolt Threads should encourage entrepreneurs and investors to look beyond their comfort zone of apps and software to support true innovation and science,
and plied together like yarn or rope, according to the researchers. his technology could be well-suited for rapid commercialization,
The light is projected through each well and collected by 96 plastic optical fibers. A custom-designed smartphone app then reads the resulting images
when the very clothes we wear are outfitted with interconnected sensors. Clothes already being close to our bodies are a natural platform for wearable sensors,
but connecting a bunch of electronic components embedded within a pair of pants requires very flexible wiring. The Japanese team developed a new conductive ink that can be printed right onto clothes to create flexible and stretchable electric connections.
The ink is made out of a solution of silver flakes organic solvent, fluorine rubber, and fluorine surfactant, able to be stretched more than three times
Printable elastic conductors with a high conductivity for electronic textile applicationsource: University of Tokyo y
#Artificial Neurons That Work Like Real Ones to Treat Neurological Conditions, Paralysis Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have created reportedly an artificial neuron that apparently works just like our own living neurons
#Wind turbines Without Blades It no longer surprising to encounter 100-foot pinwheels spinning in the breeze as you drive down the highway.
March 5th, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Energy-generating cloth could replace batteries in wearable devices March 4th,
Tour said graphene quantum dots may prove highly efficient in applications ranging from medical imaging to additions to fabrics and upholstery for brighter and longer-lasting colors."
'-and the snap fastener quickly and securely fastens our clothes. One of the newest methods of synthesis in modern chemistry, click chemistry, works on a similar basis. Here, molecules are combined to form new chemical compounds by means of chemical'snaps'.
fabrics, and other natural substances occur when white, broad spectrum light strikes their surfaces. The unique chemical composition of each surface then absorbs various bands,
"The tiny molecular machine threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain--a sort of axle--and squeezes the rings together,
study co-author and the Georgia Power Professor of Polymers, Fibers and Textiles in UGA's College of Family and Consumer Sciences."
This needle is positioned then near a magnet that is fixed atop a spinning circular platter. As the magnet passes by the tip of the needle,
The patent covers layered optically variable devices (VDS such as colour shift foils that uniquely employs additional interactivity using piezoelectric layers to activate the authentication mode of a security device used as threads in products such as banknotes, passports
Further potential applications could also be flexible and stretchable electronic devices, luminescent actuators, batteries, smart cloths or sacrificial templates for the growth of new materials.
000 funding to bring scratch resistant acrylics to the world June 5th, 2015announcements Next-generation illumination using silicon quantum dot-based white-blue LED June 7th,
News and information Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th, 2015uab researchers design the most precise quantum thermometer to date:
Synthetic pieces of biological molecule form framework and glue for making nanoparticle clusters and arrays May 25th, 2015discoveries Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th,
2015announcements Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th, 2015uab researchers design the most precise quantum thermometer to date:
2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th,
#Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran Abstract: Iranian researchers produced biocompatible and biodegradable nanocomposite scaffolds by using a type of natural silk with no cellular toxicity observed in the experiments.
Silk fibroin is a natural polymer produced by various insects. This substance has applications in the production of tissue engineering scaffolds as a biological material due to its appropriate mechanical properties and computability.
It can also be used in the production of artificial skin or other medical stuff. In this research, nanocomposite scaffold was made of silk fibroin,
chitosan and alumina through freeze drying method. The produced scaffold has a homogenous structure with pore sizes of 135-148 micrometers."
Based on the results, the interaction between the organic and inorganic phases increases mechanical properties and water sorption of silk fibroin/chitosan/alumina scaffold.
2015tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th, 2015announcements New composite material as CO2 sensor June 8th, 2015industrial Nanotech,
2015tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th, 2015tools FEI Launches New Dualbeam Plasma Focused Ion beam for Electrical Fault Isolation & Failure Analysis:
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
University of Tokyo researchers have developed a new ink that can be printed on textiles in a single step to form highly conductive and stretchable connections.
Now, Professor Takao Someya's research group at the University of Tokyo's Graduate school of Engineering has developed an elastic conducting ink that is easily printed on textiles and patterned in a single printing step.
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#Leti Announces Launch of First European Nanomedicine Characterisation Laboratory: Project Combines Expertise of 9 Partners in 8 Countries to Foster Nanomedicine Innovation and Facilitate Regulatory Approval CEA-Leti today announced the launch of the European Nano-Characterisation Laboratory (EU
#Self-Cleaning Woolen Fabrics Produced in Iran Woolen products are very good sources for the growth of bacteria and microorganisms due to their protein structure,
This objective was achieved by creating a homogenous coating made of a nanocomposite of zinc oxide/nitrogen silver (N-Ag/Zno) on the fabrics.
the processing of the woolen fabric samples by using optimum amount of honeycomb nanocomposite such as N-Ag/Zno improves the biological, mechanical and hydrophilicity of the fabrics.
Among the other advantages of the use of this nanocomposite in the production of fabrics, mention can be made of creating a delay in flammability,
Ultrasonic bath has been used in the finishing process of the fabrics. By using the bath the process is carried out in one stage at low temperature at shorter time.
Finally, the abovementioned properties are created in the final product by processing of the woolen fabrics with the nanocomposite.
and plied together like yarn or rope, "she said.""This technology could be well-suited for rapid commercialization,
and be used for smart clothing such as cloaking suits and dynamic illuminated clothing.""The cloaking suit could be used to blend into a variety of environments,
and might also be used for the flexible coating of clothes and deformable components. This development success is presented on the front page of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition("Photoinduced Charge-Carrier Generation in Epitaxial MOF Thin Films:
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
Mayu Inaba, approached her mentor with questions about tiny threads of connection she noticed in an image of fruit fly reproductive stem cells,
#Nanotechnology transforms cotton fibers into modern marvel (Nanowerk News) Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses.
Cotton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials, said Hinestroza, associate professor of fiber science,
who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. In a nanoscale world and that is our world we can control cellulose-based materials one atom at a time.
The Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors so instead of adding electronics to fabrics,
he converts the fabric into an electronic component. Marcia Silva da Pinto, postdoctoral researcher, works on growing metal organic frameworks onto cotton samples to create a filtration system capable of capturing toxic gas,
as Juan Hinestroza looks on. Creating transistors and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
and textiles, enabling the creation of unique wearable electronic devices, Hinestroza said. Taking advantage of cottons irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. The layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always
Hinestroza said, Fibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
Abbey Liebman 10 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
or analyze sweat, sewn into pillows to monitor brain signals or applied to interactive textiles with heating and cooling capabilities.
Previous technologies have achieved similar functionalities but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns,
which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting, Hinestroza said. Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
but the new surfaces can efficiently kill 99.9 percent of bacteria, which could help in warding colds, flu and other diseases.
Two of Hinestrozas students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
or MOFS to fend off malarial mosquitoes. Malaria kills more than 600,000 people annually in Africa. While insecticide-treated nets are common in African homes
Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses.
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