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R&D: Materials
Scientists have developed an innovative wearable fabric that is flexible but can stiffen on demand. Developed through a combination of geometric design, 3D printing, and robotic control, the new technology, RoboFabric, can quickly be made into medical devices or soft robotics. Read on to learn more about it.
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R&D: Medical
A new washable wireless smart textile technology has potential uses in virtual reality and American Sign Language. The glove incorporates a sophisticated network of highly sensitive sensor yarns and pressure sensors.
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R&D: Materials
A single strand of fiber has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of a polymer, called polyaniline. The newly developed material showed good potential for wearable e-textiles. Researchers tested the fibers with a system that powered an LED light and another that sensed ammonia gas.
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Briefs: Medical
A wearable, textile-based device developed by Rice University engineers could help declutter, enhance — and, in the case of impairments — compensate for deficiencies in visual and auditory inputs by tapping the sense of touch.
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Briefs: Materials
A new smart material developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is activated by both heat and electricity, making it the first ever to respond to two different stimuli.
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Global Innovations: Medical
The fiber could lead to fiber-based smart clothes that provide greater versatility in functions, larger sensing areas, and greater comfort.
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R&D: Medical
Scientists have developed a stretchable and waterproof fabric that turns energy generated from body movements into electrical energy. A crucial component in the fabric is a polymer that, when...
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The material is optically transparent and easily manipulated.
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R&D: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new type of chain mail fabric is flexible like cloth but can stiffen on demand.
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R&D: Materials
A team used liquid gallium to test an antiviral and antimicrobial on a range of fabrics, including facemasks.
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Briefs: Energy
Flexible thermoelectric generators could be a useful way to make carbon "green."
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The fabric-fiber has digital capabilities to collect, store, and analyze data using a neural network.
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R&D: Medical
Researchers have demonstrated that they can print layers of electrically conductive ink on polyester fabric.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A flexible, silk-based coil is sewn on the textile.
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Briefs: Materials
The thermoelectric textile produces a small amount of electricity when heated on one side.
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Briefs: Design
Modifications to existing N95 masks improve their reusability.
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R&D: Medical
A textile sensor can detect pressure points on the socket of a prosthetic limb.
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R&D: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The breakthrough involves inkjet printing and materials with a crystal structure discovered nearly two centuries ago.
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R&D: Medical
A new, lightweight eye mask can unobtrusively capture pulse, eye movement, and sleep signals, for example, when worn in an everyday environment.
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R&D: Wearables
Researchers have developed biomaterial-based inks that respond to and quantify chemicals released from the body.
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Briefs: Materials
The fibers measure subtle and complex fabric deformations.
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Features: Design
As the founder of the Soft Systems program at Flex, Yolita brings electronics, smart textiles and computation together to create new products, digital experiences and functionalities through fibers and textiles.
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Briefs: Medical
Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have developed silk materials that can wrinkle into highly detailed patterns — including words,...
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R&D: Materials
Researchers have developed a simple, scalable, and low-cost capillary-driven self-assembly method to prepare flexible and stretchable conductive fibers that have applications in wearable...
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R&D: Materials
Scientists have found a fast and simple way to make super-elastic, multi-material, high-performance fibers. Their fibers have already been used as sensors on robotic fingers and in clothing. This...
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Features: Materials
The performance of adhesives used for wearable medical device applications is critical to the efficacy of the final product, as an improperly affixed device is...
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Briefs: Materials
If scientists are ever going to deliver on the promise of implantable artificial organs or clothing that dries itself, they’ll first need to solve the problem of...
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R&D: Medical
To treat newborns for treat, the babies lie in incubators. Irradiation with blue light in an incubator is necessary because toxic decomposition products of the blood pigment hemoglobin are deposited in the...
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R&D: Wearables
A research team has created wearable displays for various applications including healthcare. Integrating organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) into fabrics, the team developed highly flexible...
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