Publications related to Finishing (textiles)

Electroadhesive gripping system and method for gripping an object

Herbert Shea, Vito Cacucciolo, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti

An electroadhesive gripping system and a method for gripping and manipulating an object are disclosed. The invention provides a novel approach particularly useful to pick fabrics or otherwise flat and flexible objects including a method relying on electroa ...

2023

Soft Multimaterial Magnetic Fibers and Textiles

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Rémi Andréa La Polla, Syrine Mansour, Xue Wan

Magnetically responsive soft materials are promising building blocks for the next generation of soft robotics, prosthesis, surgical tools, and smart textiles. To date, however, the fabrication of highly integrated magnetic fibers with extreme aspect ratios ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Process development of pre-impregnated hybrid thin-ply composites

Alexios Argyropoulos

Thin-ply composites, obtained with recently developed fiber spreading techniques, rapidly gained industrial interest because they offer a large composite design freedom, and lead to a composite tensile strength that is close to that of the individual fiber ...

EPFL2023

Capillary Effects in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Processing: A Review

Véronique Michaud, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal, Baris Çaglar, Helena Luisa Teixido Pedarros

Capillarity plays a crucial role in many natural and engineered systems, ranging from nutrient delivery in plants to functional textiles for wear comfort or thermal heat pipes for heat dissipation. Unlike nano- or microfluidic systems with well-defined por ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Influence of depositional fabric on mechanical properties of naturally deposited sands

Gioacchino Viggiani, Edward Carlo Giorgio Andò

Fabric characteristics and shear deformation behaviour were analysed in four intact small-scale samples, including two disturbed and two undisturbed samples of naturally deposited sand from a shoal in the San Francisco Bay. Triaxial compression tests were ...

ICE PUBLISHING2022

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

High-efficiency super-elastic liquid metal based triboelectric fibers and textiles

Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Andreas Leber, Yunpeng Qu, Chaoqun Dong, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Marco Volpi, Nicola Bartolomei, Rajasundar Chandran

Fibers that harvest mechanical energy via the triboelectric effect are excellent candidates aspower sources for wearable electronics and functional textiles. Thus far however, their fab-rication remains complex, and exhibited performances are below the sta ...

Nature Research2020

Soft and stretchable liquid metal transmission lines as distributed probes of multimodal deformations

Fabien Sorin, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Nicola Bartolomei, Rajasundar Chandran

Mechanical sensing represents a key functionality in soft electronics for applications in health monitoring, human–machine interaction, or soft robotics. Current approaches typically rely on intricate networks of sensors specific to one type of deformation ...

2020

Facile Fabrication of Microfluidic Chips for 3D Hydrodynamic Focusing and Wet Spinning of Polymeric Fibers

Fabien Sorin, René M. Rossi, Efe Armagan, Claudio Toncelli, Akin Gürsoy

Microfluidic wet spinning has gained increasing interest in recent years as an alternative to conventional wet spinning by offering higher control in fiber morphology and a gateway for the development of multi-material fibers. Conventionally, microfluidic ...

2020

Compressible and Electrically Conducting Fibers for Large‐Area Sensing of Pressures

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Yunpeng Qu, Andreas Leber, Dong Yan, Shahrzad Shadman Yazdi

Flexible pressure sensors offer a wide application range in health monitoring and human–machine interaction. However, their implementation in functional textiles and wearable electronics is limited because existing devices are usually small, 0D elements, a ...

2019

General Sensorless Method with Parameter Identification and Double Kalman Filter Applied to a Bistable Fast Linear Switched Reluctance Actuator for Textile Machine

Yves Perriard, Douglas Martins Araujo, Faguy Tamwo Simo

This paper provides a general sensorless method to control the position of a linear actuator. After a review of the solutions used so far, this new method is applied to identify keys passing through a linear actuator used in an industrial textile machine. ...

INST ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS JAPAN2019

Thermal Drawing of Polymer Nano-composites: Fluid Dynamic Analysis and Application to Novel Functional Fibers

Alexis Gérald Page

The thermal drawing process is emerging as a versatile platform for the development of multimaterial fiber devices and advanced textiles for sensing, energy harvesting or medical applications, owing to the possibility to integrate insulators, conductors an ...

EPFL2019

In-plane permeability distribution mapping of isotropic mats using flow front detection

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Damiano Salvatori

In-plane permeability of textile fabrics is often characterized by one-dimensional rectilinear flow experiments, displaying limitations related to potential race-tracking effects and the need to run experiments at several fiber volume fractions. We propose ...

2018

Exploring the use of native spider silk as an optical fibre for chemical sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow, Isabelle Dicaire, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

A spider uses up to seven different types of silk, all having specific functions, as building material, weapon and sensory organ to detect the presence of preys on its web. Recently, scientists have put under the limelight the extraordinary properties of t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Permeability of textile fabrics with spherical inclusions

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar

We investigated the effect of rigid spherical inclusions such as microcapsules and fillers on the permeability of fabrics by using glass beads as model inclusions. Beads with a range of diameters (40-800 mu m) and volume fractions (2.5-10%) were sieved bet ...

Elsevier2017

Sensorless Method with Parameter Identification Applied to a Bistable Fast Linear Switched Reluctance Actuator for Textile Machine

Yves Perriard, Douglas Martins Araujo, Faguy Tamwo Simo

This paper provides a sensorless method to control the position of keys passing through a linear actuator used in an industrial textile machine. The presented method describes how to find out the position of the key using two cascading discrete Kalman filt ...

2017

Multi-material micro-electromechanical fibers with bendable functional domains

Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Alexis Gérald Page, Yunpeng Qu, Marco Volpi

The integration of increasingly complex functionalities within thermally drawn multi-material fibers is heralding a novel path towards advanced soft electronics and smart fabrics. Fibers capable of electronic, optoelectronic, piezoelectric or energy harves ...

2017

Semiconducting Nanowire-Based Optoelectronic Fibers

Fabien Sorin, Michele Ceriotti, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Alexis Gérald Page, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Mariana Rossi Carvalho

he recent ability to integrate semiconductor-based optoelectronic functionalities within thin fibers is opening intriguing opportunities for flexible electronics and advanced textiles. The scalable integration of high-quality semiconducting devices within ...

Wiley2017

Microstructure tailoring of selenium-core multimaterial optoelectronic fibers

Cyril Cayron, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Alexis Gérald Page, Yunpeng Qu, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Tapajyoti Dasgupta

The integration of semiconducting materials within thermally drawn multi-material polymer fibers is emerging as a versatile platform for flexible optoelectronics and advanced fabrics. Developing a deeper control over the microstructure of the electrically ...

Optical Society of America2017

Microstructure Engineering in Multi-material Fibers

Wei Yan

The integration of conducting and semiconducting architectures within thermally drawn thin and flexible fibers is emerging as a versatile platform for smart sensors and imaging systems, medical and biological probes, energy harvesting and advanced textile. ...

EPFL2017