LED "space fabric" subvert the textile industry
New scarves developed by designers and researchers have subverted the textile industry.
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The "space cloth" invented by Sonya Reynolds is the first non-woven material made of yarn. This smart textile uses its unique structure to encase copper, LED and other objects. Ms. Reynolds told the idea to the Advanced Textile Research Group at the University of Nottingham Trent that the research team further developed the new manufacturing process, led by Professor Tilak Dias and Dr. Amanda Briggs Goode of the Faculty of Arts and Design.
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The new manufacturing process is called zephlinear, and unlike traditional woven or knitted materials, it is woven from a new technology, meaning "tangled yarns."
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Reynolds said: "This is a big breakthrough for the textile industry, which is the first non-woven material made of yarn with a promising future, and the linear passage of yarn gives it great potential for smart textiles. It is particularly suitable for being embedded in pharmaceutical or odor-containing microcapsules to provide medicines or to create antibacterial and aromatic clothing for specific parts of the body, which may be used in other applications such as wall covering Because it consumes less labor than traditional fabrics, it is an eco-friendly material for production. "
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Zephlinear is a combination of two words: zephyr (light fabric) and linear (linear). It is called 'space cloth' because of its appearance and its textile properties. The material is patent pending and will be on display recently at wearable technology show. Research shows that the yarn of this new textile is natural, such as pure wool, hair, and wool / silk blends.
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Dias, a professor at the Advanced Textile Research Group, said: "zephlinear is developing at an alarming rate with remarkable results and we believe it has great potential in textiles and we have found that it can be combined with electronic textile technologies such as heating textiles or embedding Style LED textile.Its fabric is lightweight and flexible, can be stretched back to its original shape.We look forward to further development of these materials, we believe that in the future it will provide people with smarter, more environmentally friendly clothing. "