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- Backe, Carin, et al.
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Serially connected EAP based tape yarns for in-air actuation using textile structures
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Smart textiles that have the capability for actuation are of great interest for creating wearables and haptic devices. Through the use of textile fabric production processes electroactive polymeric materials in the form of film-based yarns can be integrated and combined with passive yarns to create soft, actuating fabrics. This way single EAP materials can be transformed into segments consisting of multiple EAP yarns working together. Furthermore, these segments can be positioned within a fabric to work individually or simultaneously in different patterns by use of incorporated conductive yarn paths. While the chase for additivity in force is a long-standing part of developing new actuator structures, so is the need for additivity in displacement motion. Here we construct an actuating textile fabric through the process of weaving that is able to operate in-air using polypyrrole-based tape yarns with choline acetate ionic liquid. Finding the balance between the weaving parameters turned out to be key. We found that in a vertically suspended arrangement, a three-segment serially connected fabric assembly demonstrated an accumulative effect in displacement and a joint-like motion behaviour. This opens up for more complicated motion patterns to be created through textile processing of EAP materials.
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- Carney Almroth, Bethanie, 1974, et al.
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Quantifying shedding of synthetic fibers from textiles; a source of microplastics released into the environment
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Pollution Research. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0944-1344 .- 1614-7499. ; 25:2, s. 1191-1199
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Microplastics in the environment are a subject of intense research as they pose a potential threat to marine organisms. Plastic fibers from textiles have been indicated as a major source of this type of contaminant, entering the oceans via wastewater and diverse non-point sources. Their presence is also documented in terrestrial samples. In this study, the amount of microfibers shedding from synthetic textiles was measured for three materials (acrylic, nylon, polyester), knit using different gauges and techniques. All textiles were found to shed, but polyester fleece fabrics shed the greatest amounts, averaging 7360 fibers/m(-2)/L-1 in one wash, compared with polyester fabrics which shed 87 fibers/m(-2)/L-1. We found that loose textile constructions shed more, as did worn fabrics, and high twist yarns are to be preferred for shed reduction. Since fiber from clothing is a potentially important source of microplastics, we suggest that smarter textile construction, prewashing and vacuum exhaustion at production sites, and use of more efficient filters in household washing machines could help mitigate this problem.
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- Huniade, Claude, 1996-, et al.
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EMIm-OTf Ionogel Coated Fibres - Characterisation and Development, Aiming at Ionic Smart Textiles
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ions are prevalent within bioelectronics, as they are the main charge carriers in living systems. In contrast to electronic systems, ionic ones are closer to what can be found in our body; in muscles, neurons and nerves.Textiles are a much-used biomedical material, both in vivo and in vitro due to its membrane character, highly efficient area, softness, biocompatibility and biodegradability. Modifying the physicochemical properties of the core or the surface of textile has been reported a countless number of times, but still, its use in a bioelectrical context is limited.Fibres are the building blocks of textiles and what make textiles an architected class of material. Then ionically conductive fibres are of great interest.Here, we show the preparation of iono-conductive textile fibres through the (semi-)continuous dip-coating of ionogel on the cellulose-based viscose.Ionogels are composed of salts in liquid state and a 3-dimensional solid network, in our case an ionic liquid (IL), 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate, commonly named EMIm OTf or EMIm Triflate, and a thiol acrylate network, allowing the mobility of the ions within or in/out of the gel. This specific combination is a first effort towards the development of ionic textile fibres and ionic smart textiles, as a variety of ILs with different cations and anions exists, potentially allowing a large number of different combinations.We investigate how the coating of this ionogel affects the mechanical properties as well as the conductivity in AC or DC arrangement and their relation to temperature and humidity. Also, the thermal stability and sensitivity of degradation of the fibre system is studied.Moreover, we introduce different textile structures, and potential applications directed to bioelectronics.
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- Huniade, Claude, 1996-, et al.
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Investigating ionic liquid-based click-ionogels by thiol-ene photopolymerisation onto textile yarns/fibres
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Electronic textiles’ primordial component are the connections that allow a circuit to be formed. As for today, the catalogue of conductive yarns is expanded to highly conductive metals such as copper, silver and steel, or electroconductive plastics composed of conductive polymers and electroconductive fillers such as metal particles or carbon allotropes.Ionic liquids are also able to carry electrical charges, and their capacity to conduct electricity has yet to be investigated as a yarn component, e.g. an ion conducting coating.Here, we report on attempts to coat ionic liquid-based click-ionogel on fibres, using thiol-ene reactions with the help of a photobase generator.Ionogel precursors, composed of plurithiol precursors, acrylate monomers and a triflate ionic-liquid, are applied on yarn and then cured by UV irradiation, initiating the Michael reaction and creating the thiol-acrylate-triflate network around the yarn.The aim of the present study is to prepare and characterise yarns coated with such ionogels, while developing a continuous yarn coating process.Several different ionogel compositions and different yarn topologies are investigated, comparing their structure, electrical conductivity, mechanical properties, thermal stability, behaviour to chemical reagents, as well as the different surface tensions and interfacial interactions.Textile processability is explored by the manufacture of simple fabrics.An application for those ionic conductive coating is the ion supply for electroactive polymers coated yarns that currently rely on electrolytes. This novel coating will render the light-weight property of textile valuable, and therefore broadening their application as wearables.
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