From agricultural waste to smart textiles!
In the morning, we followed agricultural and natural waste on its journey. Tomato stems, banana waste, okra and artichoke stalks, milkweed and poplar-seed fibres went from green extraction and characterisation all the way to yarns, knits and needle-punched nonwovens.
In the afternoon, we made those materials smart. Talks covered graphene-based conductive inks and coatings, wearable piezoresistive pressure sensors, graphene-coated yarn sensor networks, graphene/MWCNT strain and temperature sensors, and a 3D-scan-to-knit approach for made-to-measure prosthetic socks with integrated TENS electrodes. Swipe for a few examples from the talks
A big thank you to all our speakers and participants in Manchester and Istanbul for a full day of great science and discussion!
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Cagatay Gumus
