Publications related to Cotton

Electrodeposition of polyaniline on reduced graphene oxide/cotton yarn with tunable electrochemical performance for flexible textile supercapacitors

Graphene/cotton fibers show significant promise in wearable energy storage due to their low cost, porous structure, and exceptional integration ability into wearable systems. However, the eco-unfriendly reductants and standalone electric double-layer capac ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Cotton yarns decorated with hydrothermally reduced graphene oxide for flexible supercapacitors

Dou Du, Xing Wang, Lin Li

Cotton fibers, a natural cellulose, have played a critical role in the development of wearable energy storage, owning to their wearability, integrability, eco-benignity, and cost effectiveness. Graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material, possesses excelle ...

Elsevier2023

A multi scale consolidation model for press moulding of hybrid textiles into complex geometries

Vincent Werlen

Side-by-side hybrid textiles are an intermediate step for the production of fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites. Press moulding these materials combining reinforcing fibre textiles and thermoplastic matrix textiles or flexible layers is a promising m ...

EPFL2023

A model for the consolidation of hybrid textiles considering air entrapment, dissolution and diffusion

Véronique Michaud, Vincent Werlen, Christian Rytka

A new model is proposed for the consolidation of hybrid textiles, in which air entrapment and dissolution are considered. One of the key parameters is tow permeability, which is described by the analytical model of Gebart and validated at very high fibre v ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Homoeolog Inference Methods Requiring Bidirectional Best Hits or Synteny Miss Many Pairs

Shaoline Sheppard

Homoeologs are pairs of genes or chromosomes in the same species that originated by speciation and were brought back together in the same genome by allopolyploidization. Bioinformatic methods for accurate homoeology inference are crucial for studying the e ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

Electronic Multi-material Fibers and Textiles: Novel Designs and Applications

Chaoqun Dong

Flexible electronics and particularly soft fibers and textiles are becoming key components in rapidly developing fields such as robotics, health and personal care, sensing, or implantable and wearable devices. Thus far however, the ability to impart soft a ...

EPFL2021

Mechanical properties of natural fiber composites produced using dynamic sheet former

Composites formed from wood fibers and man-made cellulosic fibers in PLA (polylactic acid) matrix, manufactured using sheet forming technique and hot pressing, are studied. The composites have very low density (due to high porosity) and rather good elastic ...

2020

Microstructured biodegradable fibers for advanced controlled release

Shahrzad Shadman Yazdi

Biodegradable polymers are increasingly at the heart of therapeutic devices. Particularly in the form of thin and elongated fibers, they offer an effective strategy for controlled-release in a variety of biomedical configurations such as sutures, scaffolds ...

EPFL2020

Eco-friendly pesticide based on peppermint oil nanoemulsion: preparation, physicochemical properties, and its aphicidal activity against cotton aphid

Amirmostafa Amirjani

Using organic insecticides including plant oils, it is possible to design a new perspective for the control of insect pests. In this research, nanoemulsion formulations of Mentha piperita, wild-type essential oil (EO) were prepared utilizing high-energy ul ...

2020

Multi-material stretchable optical, electronic and optoelectronic fibers and ribbons composites via thermal drawing

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

The present invention concerns a thermal drawing method for forming fibers, wherein said fibers are made at least from a stretchable polymer. The present invention also concerns drawn fibers made by the process. ...

2017

Peptide-Enhanced Selective Surface Deposition of Polymer-Based Fragrance Delivery Systems

Harm-Anton Klok

Surface deposition is a critical step in the application of fragrance-containing products. This contribution presents a novel strategy to enhance the deposition of polymer-based fragrance delivery systems onto cotton substrates from the application medium ...

2017

Bioinspired Selective Surface Deposition of Fragrance Delivery Systems

Kemal Arda Günay

The perception of pleasantness in many of the consumer goods is provided by volatile chemical compounds called fragrances. While the volatility of fragrances is essential to provide a pleasant olfactory response, it presents at the same time a technologi ...

EPFL2016

Micromechanical design of hierarchical composites using global load sharing theory

William Curtin, Varun Parameswaran Rajan

Hierarchical composites, embodied by natural materials ranging from bone to bamboo, may offer combinations of material properties inaccessible to conventional composites. Using global load sharing (GLS) theory, a well-established micromechanics model for c ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Rational design of fiber-reinforced hybrid composites: A global load sharing analysis

William Curtin, Varun Parameswaran Rajan

An analytical model based on global load sharing (GLS) theory is developed to guide design of fiber-reinforced hybrid composites with superior mechanical properties to single-fiber-type composites. The hybrid is assumed to comprise two types of fibers-low- ...

Elsevier2015

Experimental and numerical study on structural behavior of a single timber textile module

Yves Weinand, Laurent Humbert, Markus Hudert, Meisam Sistaninia, Masoud Sistaninia

The present work investigates an innovative class of timber structure with potential applications in roofing, facade and bridge construction, called Timberfabric. The development of Timberfabric structures originates from the approach of harnessing the str ...

Elsevier2013

Inactivation of bacteria under visible light and in the dark by Cu films. Advantages of Cu-HIPIMS-sputtered films

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi

The Cu polyester thin-sputtered layers on textile fabrics show an acceptable bacterial inactivation kinetics using sputtering methods. Direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS) for 40 s of Cu on cotton inactivated Escherichia coli within 30 min under visi ...

Springer Heidelberg2012

Timberfabric: Innovative Lightweight Structures

Yves Weinand, Markus Hudert

The research project “Structural Timber Fabric: Applying Textile Principles on Building Scale” follows an innovative and experimental approach to develop novel lightweight timber structures. It examines structural and aesthetic qualities of textiles and te ...

2011

Structure-reactivity relations for DC-magnetron sputtered Cu-layers during E. coli inactivation in the dark and under light

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Lioubov Kiwi, Rosendo Sanjines

This study addresses unreported features for Cu DC-magnetron sputtering on cotton mediating inactivation of Escherichia coil K12 (from now on E. coil). In-depth profile for the different Cu-species inside the cotton fibers was determined by 5 key Ar+ etchi ...

2010

Magnetron-Sputtered Ag Surfaces. New Evidence for the Nature of the Ag Ions Intervening in Bacterial Inactivation

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Rosendo Sanjines

DC-magnetron sputtering with an Ag target on textile surfaces produced Ag particles with sizes similar to 4.7 nm (+/- 15%). Sputtering for 15 s led to Ag layers of 15-20 nm. The threshold sputtering time precluding airborne bacterial growth was about 60 s. ...

2010

Self-cleaning modified TiO2-cotton pretreated by UVC-light (185 nm) and RF-plasma in vacuum and also under atmospheric pressure

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi

Two new innovative findings presented in this study are: (a) TiO2-cotton fabrics obtained by pretreatment with UVC-light (185nm) at atmospheric pressure introduced functionalities into the cotton surface enabling the chelation/binding of TiO2. This was pos ...

2009