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Recent Advances in Functional Fabric‐Based Wearable Supercapacitors

Advanced Materials Interfaces
With the advent of wearable electronics, the urge to devise new and flexible energy storage devices to power up wearable systems has steadily risen over the past few decades.
Ashfaqul Hoque Khadem
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Multifunctional Flax Fibres Based on the Combined Effect of Silver and Zinc Oxide (Ag/ZnO) Nanostructures

Nanomaterials, 2018
Cellulosic fibre-based smart materials exhibiting multiple capabilities are getting tremendous attention due to their wide application areas. In this work, multifunctional flax fabrics with piezoresistive response were developed through the combined ...
Sofia M. Costa, Diana P. Ferreira, Armando Ferreira, Filipe Vaz, Raul Fangueiro   +4 more
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Social Intelligence Design in Ambient Intelligence [PDF]

, 2009
This Special Issue of AI and Society contains a selection of papers presented at the 6th Social Intelligence Design Workshop held at ITC-irst, Povo (Trento, Italy) in July 2007.
Nijholt, A., Nishida, Toyoaki, Stock, Oliviero   +2 more
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A Smart Magnetically Actuated Flip‐Disc Programmable Metasurface with Ultralow Power Consumption for Real‐Time Channel Control

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The study proposes a 1‐bit programmable metasurface based on flip‐disc display, named flip‐disc metasurface (FD‐MTS). This new design enables ultralow energy consumption while maintaining coding patterns. It also exhibits high scalability and multifunctional flexibility.
Jiang Han Bao, Che Liu, Jia Cheng Li, Zhen Hao Fu, Yi Su Huang, Si Qi Huang, Lei Zhang, Jian Wei You, Tie Jun Cui   +8 more
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Novel Biomimetic “Spider Web” Robust, Super‐Contractile Liquid Crystal Elastomer Active Yarn Soft Actuator

Advanced Science
In nature, spider web is an interwoven network with high stability and elasticity from silk threads secreted by spider. Inspired by the structure of spider webs, light‐driven liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) active yarn is designed with super‐contractile ...
Dingsheng Wu, Xin Li, Yuxin Zhang, Xinyue Cheng, Zhiwen Long, Lingyun Ren, Xin Xia, Qingqing Wang, Jie Li, Pengfei Lv, Quan Feng, Qufu Wei   +11 more
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Exploring smart clothing innovations in human augmentation through soft and fuzzy set theory

Applied Operations and Analytics
Smart clothing, a transformative innovation, has applications in various sectors including sports, military, fashion, and medical monitoring, where intelligent fabric selection and adaptive control systems are crucial for optimal performance.
Jahanvi, Rashmi Singh
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Bioplastics made from upcycled food waste. Prospects for their use in the field of design [PDF]

, 2017
In recent years, the negative effects on the environment of the intensive use of synthetic, oil-derived plastics to make products, even those with a limited required duration, have given renewed impetus to the search for biodegradable and/or compostable ...
Cecchini, Cecilia
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3D Digital Light Processing of Redox‐Active Polymers for Electrochemical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
3D printing of electrochemically switchable conducting polymers is achieved by Digital Light Processing of redox‐active carbazole‐based polymer materials. Complex 2D and 3D architectures including dot arrays and pyramids clearly show the potential for novel 3D switchable electrochemical devices for sensors, electrochromic displays as well as 3D printed
Christian Delavier, Svenja Bechtold, Marcus H. Dodds, Eva Blasco, Sabine Ludwigs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preface to the International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations, and Applications in Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles 2023)

Engineering Proceedings
The fifth International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations, and Applications in Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles 2023) was held in Ghent (Belgium) on 14–16 November 2023.
Russel Torah, Kai Yang, Beckie Isaia, Paula Veske-Lepp, Frederick Bossuyt, Stephen Beeby   +5 more
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Heat Transfer in Directional Water Transport Fabrics

Fibers, 2016
Directional water transport fabrics can proactively transfer moisture from the body. They show great potential in making sportswear and summer clothing.
Chao Zeng, Hongxia Wang, Hua Zhou, Tong Lin   +3 more
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