{"id":114355,"date":"2020-10-13T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/wearable-it-devices-dyeing-process-gives-textiles-electronic-properties"},"modified":"2020-10-13T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:24:03","slug":"wearable-it-devices-dyeing-process-gives-textiles-electronic-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/wearable-it-devices-dyeing-process-gives-textiles-electronic-properties","title":{"rendered":"Wearable IT devices: Dyeing process gives textiles electronic properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wearable-it-devices-dyeing-process-gives-textiles-electronic-properties2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal was to integrate interactive functionalities directly into the fibers of textiles instead of just attaching electronic components to them,\u201d says J\u00fcrgen Steimle, computer science professor at Saarland University. In his research group on human-computer interaction at Saarland Informatics Campus, he and his colleagues are investigating how computers and their operation can be integrated as seamlessly as possible into the physical world. This includes the use of electro-interactive materials.<\/p>\n<p>Previous approaches to the production of these textiles are complicated and influence the haptics of the material. The new method makes it possible to convert textiles and garments into e-textiles, without affecting their original properties\u2014they remain thin, stretchable and supple. This creates new options for quick and versatile experimentation with new forms of e-textiles and their integration into IT devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially for devices worn on the body, it is important that they restrict movement as little as possible and at the same time can process high-resolution input signals\u201d, explains Paul Strohmeier, one of the initiators of the project and a scientist in Steimle\u2019s research group. To achieve this, the Saarbr\u00fccken researchers are using the in-situ polymerization process. Here, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical properties<\/a> are \u201cdyed\u201d into the fabric: a textile is subjected to a chemical reaction in a water bath, known as polymerization, which makes it electrically conductive and sensitive to pressure and stretching, giving it so-called piezoresistive properties. By \u201cdyeing\u201d only certain areas of a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/textile\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">textile<\/a> or polymerizing individual threads, the computer scientists can produce customized e-textiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur goal was to integrate interactive functionalities directly into the fibers of textiles instead of just attaching electronic components to them,\u201d says J\u00fcrgen Steimle, computer science professor at Saarland University. In his research group on human-computer interaction at Saarland Informatics Campus, he and his colleagues are investigating how computers and their operation can be integrated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}