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Design and Construction of Smart Structures for Technical Textiles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
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.
Hardy, Verity-Gay
core   +7 more sources

Producing and Collecting for Empire: African Textiles in the V&A 1852-2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The aim of this project is to examine the African textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum and how they reflect the historical and cultural relationship between Britain and Africa.
Stylianou, Nicola Stella
core   +5 more sources

Bio-Functional Textiles: Combining Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers with Fibrous Materials for Innovative Dermatological Therapies. [PDF]

open access: yesPharmaceutics, 2019
In the field of pharmaceutical technology, significant attention has been paid on exploiting skin as a drug administration route. Considering the structural and chemical complexity of the skin barrier, many research works focused on developing an ...
Massella D   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Challenges in Knitted E-textiles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper considers the progress made in E-textiles within knitted textiles and discusses what “Project Jacquard” and the debut of the woven Levi’s Commuter X Jacquard by Google jacket helps reveal about the relationship between E-textiles and textiles ...
Amy Chen   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Mechanism of Antiwrinkle Finishing of Cotton Fabrics Using Mixed Polycarboxylic Acids

open access: yesInternational Journal of Polymer Science, 2020
The kinetics, activation energy, and mechanism of esterification of cotton by mixed polycarboxylic acids, namely, 1,2,3,4-butanetetracarboxylic acid (BTCA) and citric acid (CA), were studied during the curing process of cotton fibers in comparison with ...
Huaifang Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electronic fibers and textiles: Recent progress and perspective

open access: yesiScience, 2021
Summary: Wearable electronics are receiving increasing attention with the advances of human society and technologies. Among various types of wearable electronics, electronic fibers/textiles, which integrate the comfort and appearance of conventional ...
Yong Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Measurement of Foam-Sized Yarn Properties from Yarn Sequence Images

open access: yesAUTEX Research Journal, 2018
Unlike the normal sizing method, the foam sizing had been proven to be a low-add-on technology. To investigate the effect of foam sizing, film thickness, sized-yarn evenness, and size penetration rate were necessary to evaluate the performances of foam ...
Zhu Bo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aromatherapy in Textiles: A Systematic Review of Studies Examining Textiles as a Potential Carrier for the Therapeutic Effects of Essential Oils

open access: yesTextiles, 2022
Integrative medicine is a rapidly growing specialty field of medical care that emphasizes the amalgamation of complementary therapies and conventional medicine.
Sunidhi Mehta, Maureen MacGillivray
doaj   +1 more source

Highly Sensitive and Durable Structured Fibre Sensors for Low-Pressure Measurement in Smart Skin

open access: yesSensors, 2019
Precise measurements of low pressure are highly necessary for many applications. This study developed novel structured fibre sensors embedded in silicone, forming smart skin with high sensitivity, high durability, and good immunity to crosstalk for ...
Bao Yang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimization of Operational Parameters of Foam Sizing Process for Cotton Yarns Based on Plackett-Burman Experiment Design

open access: yesAUTEX Research Journal, 2018
This study was aimed at investigating the process optimization of foam sizing for cotton yarns. In this work, effects of major foam-sizing process factors including size concentration, blowing ratio, stirring speed, pre-wetting temperature, pre-drying ...
Zhu Bo, Liu Jianli, Gao Weidong
doaj   +1 more source

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