Smart Intelligent Textiles
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Smart Intelligent Textiles
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| Saturday, 04 September 2010 | |
| উৎসর্গঃ সৃস্টির সেবক, রেডিও আবিস্কারক স্যার জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু - যার স্পর্শে পৃথিবী ধন্য! Today, textile touches our lives so many ways. Scientists are seeking advanced engineered materials and sophisticated solutions for challenging applications. A new generation of Interdisciplinary innovations outreaches the engineered textile structures for superior functional features. This article sheds on light on the recent research interests and the challenges and opportunities with these emerging intelligent smart textiles in perspective. Highly flexible textile structures are used extensively today to produce stronger, lighter, safer and smarter products to replace heavy metal with superior performance and extended service life. The classical research focus remains integrating emerging technologies to textile structures to design advanced materials with critical performance requirements predominantly for intelligent interactions and functional features. For more in-depth details explore the links and featured insights below. Areas of Interests (see links):
•IDTechEx
find that in 2010 the total market for energy harvesting devices,
including everything from wristwatches to wireless sensors, is $605
million, rising to $4.4 billion in 2020.
•The
retail sales of window coverings in the US were $6.9 billion/year in
2008 and increasing at 3%/year from 2008-2013 (Fredonia Focus, 2009).
•The
development of new products is essential to staying competitive in this
market, requiring innovation and differentiation. Advancements in the
industry are driven by new materials with specific performance
properties (Fredonia Focus, 2009).
•New
products that control sun’s heat and glare are expected to dominate
innovation. In the US, some of these window shades are energy efficient
enough to be eligible for energy efficiency tax credits of $1500 as part
of the US Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
•Integrated textiles and electronics is an industry already estimated to be worth more than $1 billion annually, Professor Xia-ming
Tao, of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said in her keynote address
at the 100th Centenary Textile Institute Conference held in Manchester
on November 3rd 2010.
•“Saint-Gobain Glass and SAGE will build the world’s first large-scale electrochromic
glass plant in Faribault, Minnesota (United States). The project,
started in November 2010, will cost about US$135M. It will act as the
spearhead for electrochromic
technology worldwide. The new plant will have an annual production
capacity of more than 370, 000 square meters (4 million square feet) of electrochromic
glass with sizes ranging up to 1.5 x 3.5 meters (5 x 10 feet), much
larger than currently available in the market. The plant is scheduled to
begin production starting in mid-2012. Leveraging the resultant
economies of scale, this innovative glass will be sold at an affordable
price.”
•Germany’s
Science Council has recently approved the University of Freiburg’s
proposal for the Freiburg Centre for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired
Technologies (FIT). The €23-million project is scheduled to be ready in
2013 and will focus on basic research into interactive materials and
intelligent systems.
•Agion Technologies has received US Patent 7,754,625 which specifically protects its odour control solution as a breakthrough in treating white and light-coloured materials, ensuring long-term colour stability and wash durability.
•According
to reports of various market research companies, the global market for
technical textiles is expected to grow to the tune of US$ 127 billion by
the year 2010. While the US and EU continues to be the main
manufacturers and consumers of functional textiles, China has emerged as
a large manufacturer of the same.
•According
to the definition of CEN/TC 248 Committee working on standardization,
“Smart or intelligent textiles are functional textiles, which interact
with their environment by responding to it. This response can be either a
(visible) change in the materials properties or result in communicating
the environmental trigger to an external read out.”
•Solar
PVs now constitute an annual $20 billion business globally. They
presently generate 20 GW of power annually (>95% grid-connected),
with increases averaging 40% p.a. since 2000.1 Solar PV cell R&D now represents a global $400 million per year direct public investment.1 Only a tiny fraction of this research (ca. $3 million annually1) is carried out in Canada. –Int’l Energy Agency Report# IEA-PVPS T1-19:2010
It
is estimated that by 2016 there will be around 300 million wireless
sensor-based gadgets for wearing on the body in the fields of healthcare
and sports management as well as other activities in the fields of
media, automotive, security and the home.
•Nike
has established a running community portal on Nikeplus.com, where users
can monitor their sports performance. By 2014 Nike aims to have 10
million people around the world hooked up to its Nikeplus.com running
community portal via sensors in their clothing, footwear, wristwatches
and other accessories.
•According to Wikipedia:
The
global market for nanotechnologies is projected to grow at a CAGR of
around 20% till 2013, says " Nanotechnology Market Forecast to 2013 : ."
The report also projects that market for nanotechnology incorporated in
manufactured goods will worth US$ 1.6 Trillion, representing a CAGR of
more than 49% in the forecast period (2009-2013). This growth will
largely be driven by massive investment in nanotechnology R&D by
both governments and corporates across the world.
“A technical textile is a textile product manufactured for non-aesthetic purposes, where function is the primary criterion. It is a large and growing sector and supports a vast array of other industries. Overall, global growth rates of technical textiles are about 4% per year greater than the growth of home and apparel textiles, which are growing at a rate of 1% per year.” Outlook: No doubt, the ripples of interdisciplinary innovations and super complex products will transform our future in a unique way. However, the impact of some of these emerging technologies is still unknown. Can we recycle these emerging complex wastes and sustain our environment? What do you think? More to come... Acknowledgements: TexTek Solutions :: MW Canada Material Innovations. Interesting Links:
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