TECHSTILE | Tailoring and Extending Chemically-assisted Spinning to Textiles Incorporating Liquid crystal-Enhanced functionality

Summary
Responsive and smart textiles are a next frontier of research to add new, useful functionality to commodities we already use in our day-to-day lives. By allowing us to replace energy-consuming electronic sensors for detecting or responding to stresses and harmful conditions, they can contribute to a safer, greener, and more sustainable world. The jump from concept to product, however, has been fraught with issues: how can we incorporate novel materials of interest, such as liquid crystals or colloidal suspensions with a liquid armor functionality into fibers that we can then incorporate into textiles? In this project, I will use a microfluidic wet spinning technique I developed to incorporate functionality into fibers made from textile-grade polymers smart, yet comfortably wearable garments. I will focus on two functionalities: responsiveness to volatile organic compounds, enabled by liquid crystals, and responsiveness to ballistic impacts, provided by liquid armor. I will assess the performance of these fibers to the applied stresses as well as incorporate them, using embroidery and weaving, into fabrics and evaluate their performance in prototype wearable garments.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101152450
Start date: 01-07-2024
End date: 30-06-2026
Total budget - Public funding: - 175 920,00 Euro
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Responsive and smart textiles are a next frontier of research to add new, useful functionality to commodities we already use in our day-to-day lives. By allowing us to replace energy-consuming electronic sensors for detecting or responding to stresses and harmful conditions, they can contribute to a safer, greener, and more sustainable world. The jump from concept to product, however, has been fraught with issues: how can we incorporate novel materials of interest, such as liquid crystals or colloidal suspensions with a liquid armor functionality into fibers that we can then incorporate into textiles? In this project, I will use a microfluidic wet spinning technique I developed to incorporate functionality into fibers made from textile-grade polymers smart, yet comfortably wearable garments. I will focus on two functionalities: responsiveness to volatile organic compounds, enabled by liquid crystals, and responsiveness to ballistic impacts, provided by liquid armor. I will assess the performance of these fibers to the applied stresses as well as incorporate them, using embroidery and weaving, into fabrics and evaluate their performance in prototype wearable garments.

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SIGNED

Call topic

HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01

Update Date

22-11-2024
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Horizon Europe
HORIZON.1 Excellent Science
HORIZON.1.2 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
HORIZON.1.2.0 Cross-cutting call topics
HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01
HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023