Project description
Fabrics smart enough to respond
The smart fabrics and interactive textiles industry is continuously flourishing due to its promising and revolutionary solutions for a vast range of applications such as emergency response, healthcare and eco-friendly manufacturing. The EU-funded ModelCom project aims to contribute to a paradigm shift for smart soft materials in user-customisable textiles that autonomously interact with their environment and communicate through changes in colour or shape. The innovative product will be created by coupling modular thermo- and photo-actuators to the traditional European fibre art of bobbin lace. These functional textiles could potentially be used in clothes or window shades, e.g. adapting their warming/cooling capacity based on external temperature or solar illumination. Similar applications would indirectly decrease the need for heating/cooling in many buildings and contribute to energy savings.
Objective
This project contributes to a paradigm shift for smart soft materials into user-customizable textiles that autonomously interact with their environment and communicate through changes in color or shape. This will be done by coupling modular thermo- and photo-actuators to the traditional European fiber art of bobbin lace. The envisioned color-shape-communicative textile networks will include an on/off command of embedded functionalities by modifying an established concept – coiled yarn thermoactuators – to have different selective coatings on inner and outer surfaces of the coils. Furthermore, I will create unprecedented photoactuating coiled yarns, in which visible light turns on the functionality in a thread. The developed non-conformal coating techniques will also enable multifunctional threads, in which different parts of the thread can be commanded by different wavelengths of light.
I will also develop two-dimensional multifunctional structures using these thermo- and photo-actuating threads as building blocks. The modularity of these building blocks, combined with the multiple thread system and three different braiding actions of bobbin lace, will enable a wide combinatorial parameter space for interactive network structures.
I will demonstrate a textile that can, either upon illumination or thermal stimulus, change its color, its breathability/permeability, and activate a third function, such as colorimetric detection of a biomarker. These textiles could be used in clothes or window shades, e.g. adapting their warming/cooling capacity based on the external temperature or solar illumination. Such functional textiles would indirectly decrease the need for heating/cooling many buildings and allow energy savings, thus providing an important economic opportunity. Co-creating further textile innovations with communities of bobbin lacemakers will ensure that the impact of the action goes beyond the conventional in terms of both technological and societal impact.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering fibers
- engineering and technology materials engineering colors
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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02150 Espoo
Finland
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