Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Aug 22, 2022
Textiles hold great promise as a soft yet durable material for building comfortable robotic wearables and assistive devices at low cost. Nevertheless, the development of smart wearables composed entirely of textiles has been hindered by the lack of a...
Analytica chimica acta
Aug 8, 2022
Textile fibre is very common in daily life, and its classification and identification play an important role in textile recycling, archaeology, public security, and other industries. However, traditional identification methods are time-consuming, lab...
Scientific reports
Jul 6, 2022
Soft exosuits used for supporting human muscle strength must be lightweight and wearable. Shape memory alloy (SMA) spring-based fabric muscles (SFM) are light and flexible, making them suitable for soft and shape-conformable exosuits. However, SFMs h...
Scientific reports
Jun 30, 2022
The marriage of textiles with artificial muscles to create smart textiles is attracting great attention from the scientific community and industry. Smart textiles offer many benefits including adaptive comfort and high conformity to objects while pro...
IEEE computer graphics and applications
Apr 13, 2022
Technical textiles, in particular, nonwovens used, for example, in medical masks, have become increasingly important in our daily lives. The quality of these textiles depends on the manufacturing process parameters that cannot be easily optimized in ...
Scientific reports
Mar 8, 2022
Smart textiles are novel solutions for remote healthcare monitoring which involve non-invasive sensors-integrated clothing. Polymer optical fiber (POF) sensors have attractive features for smart textile technology, and combined with Artificial Intell...
ACS nano
Mar 3, 2022
IntelliSense fabrics that can sense transient mechanical stimuli are widely anticipated in flexible and wearable electronics. However, most IntelliSense fabrics developed so far are only sensitive to quasi-static forces, such as stretching, bending, ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 29, 2021
Smart textiles have found numerous applications ranging from health monitoring to smart homes. Their main allure is their flexibility, which allows for seamless integration of sensing in everyday objects like clothing. The application domain also inc...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 17, 2021
Soft actuators (SAs) have been used in many compliant robotic structure and wearable devices, due to their safe interaction with the wearers. Despite advances, the capability of current SAs is limited by scalability, high hysteresis, and slow respons...
Environmental research
Nov 11, 2021
Removing decolorizing acid blue 113 (AB113) dye from textile wastewater is challenging due to its high stability and resistance to removal. In this study, we used an artificial neural network (ANN) model to estimate the effect of five different varia...