June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
68 pages
1h 35m
English
9 SMART TEXTILES
According to Professor Tilak Dias, Professor of Knitting, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, the current generation of textiles, including technical textiles, are passive. However the next generation of textiles will have the ability to monitor their environment and interact accordingly in order to accomplish a pre-programmed functionality. Rita Arafa reports.
Environmentally aware textiles can be considered as truly smart textiles and they would consist of three basic elements:
One of the solutions for incorporating the above components into a textile material is to create electrically active zones within ...
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