E-Textiles Network Webinar – Biointerface Fiber Technology from Fiber Printing to E-Textile
Presented by Prof. Yan Yan Shery Huang, University of Cambridge
The advancement of fiber patterning and biofabrication technologies evolves around two intertwining themes: ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ development to enable versatile, scalable fiber architectural patterning; along with expanding the material library of ‘spinnable’ solution formulations to create high-performance fibres[1]. Over the past decade, the presenter’s research group has been developing precise and designable fiber patterning techniques, evolving from low-voltage fiber patterning[2], to integrating fiber printing with 3D printing[3], and device/ circuitry-level inflight fiber printing[4]. Simultaneously, these fiber patterning approaches are demonstrated with a wide range of functional materials, including biopolymers, living materials, conducting and piezoelectric polymers, and metal-polymer composites. The presenter will also provide an outlook on the strategic pathways for developing the next-generation sustainable e-textiles[5] and ‘Fiber-of-Things (FoT)’[6,7] using functional fibers as architectural building blocks.
This webinar took place on Wednesday 19th June 13.30pm (BST).
References:
[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.3c10617
[2] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.6b07797
[3] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.9b01258
[4] https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aba0931
[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01615-z
[6] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-024-01174-4
[7] https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(24)00179-6