An international research team led by the University of Cambridge has developed a cost-effective and eco-friendly method for producing smart textiles using industrial looms. This technique enables the creation of flexible, durable smart fabrics with no size or shape limitations, offering potential a
Researchers have developed next-generation smart textiles – incorporating LEDs, sensors, energy harvesting, and storage – that can be produced inexpensively, in any shape or size, using the same machines used to make the clothing we wear every day.
Despite recent progress in the development of smart textiles, their functionality, dimensions and shapes have been limited by current manufacturing processes. “Smart textiles have also been limited by their lack of practicality,” said Dr. Luigi Occhipinti, also from the Department of Engineering, who co-led the research. “You think of the sort of bending, stretching and folding that normal fabrics have to withstand, and it’s been a challenge to incorporate that same durability into smart textiles.”
Now, the researchers have shown that smart textiles can be made using automated processes, with no limits on their size or shape. Multiple types of fiber devices, including energy storage devices, light-emitting diodes, and transistors were fabricated, encapsulated, and mixed with conventional fibers, either synthetic or natural, to build smart textiles by automated weaving. The fiber devices were interconnected by an automated laser welding method with electrically conductive adhesive.
“These companies have well-established manufacturing lines with high throughput fiber extruders and large weaving machines that can weave a metre square of textiles automatically,” said Lee. “So when we introduce the smart fibers to the process, the result is basically an electronic system that is manufactured exactly the same way other textiles are manufactured.”
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