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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal, 2019 Introduction: Lean is increasingly used by garment manufacturers to increase productivity for reducing costs and lead time. Yet, it has not been documented in a review whether lean actually improves productivity, and it is an open question whether lean ...
Abu Hamja, Malek Maalouf, Peter Hasle
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Nanotechnology Reviews, 2020 This work proposes an approach to fabricate flexible transparent ultraviolet (UV)-shielding membrane by casting method, which uniformly disperses pristine zinc oxide nanoparticles (NPs) in low-density polyethylene (LDPE). The critical conditions for film
Cui Lina +4 more
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The Professional Medical Journal, 2011 Background: Around the world, majority of the public and private sector hospitals are using reusable gowns and scrubs whereas only a few hospitals are using disposable ones. Protection during surgery is very important both for the patient as well as for the surgeon.
FARZANA KISHWAR +4 more
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Free Trade’s Looming Threat to the World’s Garment Workers [PDF]
, 2003 In this working paper, the authors challenge the ideology of free trade. The paper focuses on the damaging effects of one particular free trade policy – the phase-out of textile and apparel quotas – and its impact on the global garment ...
Bas, Nikki Fortunato, Foo, Lora Jo
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Here, we present a textile, wearable capacitive interface enabling multidirectional remote control by dynamically modulating electrode overlap and spacing via a freely gliding upper electrode. A forearm‐mounted prototype drives robotic and media tasks with 12–15 ms latency, maintains < 0.8% drift after 500 cycles, and remains stably functional at 90 ...
Cagatay Gumus +8 more
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Journal of Natural FibersThis study evaluates the sensory comfort of eco-friendly textiles, comparing natural (bamboo, organic cotton, hemp, jute, soya bean protein fibers), regenerated (Tencel (lyocell)), and synthetic (recycled polyester, recycled nylon) fibers for sustainable
Fatima Iftikhar +6 more
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Do geese migrate domestically?: Evidence from the Chinese textile and apparel industry [PDF]
The vast majority of empirical literature on “flying geese” examines industrial relocation across national boundaries, in particular in Asia. However, few studies have empirically tested whether this kind of “flying geese” pattern of industrial ...
Jianqing, Ruan, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Cotton and Child Labor Poster [PDF]
, 2008 Poster aimed at educating consumers about the use of child labor in the planting and harvesting of cotton. Offers consumers suggestions on how they can take action and demand that apparel producers and vendors do not support child ...
International Labor Rights Forum
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work reports on the actuation behavior of CP‐based polypyrrole/PVdF TYs soaked in electrolyte/ionic liquids and woven actuators where such TYs are integrated. These studies are important toward the creation of on‐body applications such as wearable soft robotics, where textiles offer many advantages such as increased force, integrated electrical ...
Carin Backe +4 more
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