Textile Fabrication
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A Simple and Scalable Fabrication Method for Organic Electronic Devices on Textiles
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2017
In this paper, we present a protocol to selectively deposit organic materials on textiles, which allows for the direct integration of organic electronic devices with wearables. The fabricated devices can be fully integrated in textiles, respecting their mechanical appearance and enabling sensing capabilities.
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Enhanced Photoluminescence of Curcuma longa Extracts via Chitosan-Mediated Energy Transfer for Textile Authentication Applications
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2023
Photoluminescence is one of the most effective authentication mechanisms being used today. Utilizing and enhancing naturally sourced materials with inherent photoluminescent properties and incorporating them into fabric substrates can lead to development of green, sustainable, and functional textiles for smart applications.
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Fabricating Nanogaps by Nanoskiving
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2013
The fabrication of electrically addressable, high-aspect-ratio (> 1000:1) metal nanowires separated by gaps of single nanometers using either sacrificial layers of aluminum and silver or self-assembled monolayers as templates is described. These nanogap structures are fabricated without a clean room or any photo- or electron-beam lithographic processes by a form of edge lithography known as nanoskiving.
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Fabrication of Amperometric Electrodes
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2009
This protocol describes how to generate carbon fiber electrodes. The electrodes are subsequently used to detect catecholamine release from vesicles with carbon fiber amperometry.
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Fabricating Cotton Analytical Devices
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2016
To investigate simple fabrication approaches for multiple assay needs, we created a fluid-absorbing channel system made of cotton material. This device was used to establish a multiple detection platform, and solve contamination issues that commonly affect lateral flow-based biomedical devices, for clinical urinalysis of nitrite, total protein, and urobilinogen.
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Fiber arrangement determines how open spaces, load-bearing paths, and exposed surfaces are distributed throughout the material. These structural features influence porosity, strength, flexibility, surface area, and fluid transport. In bioengineering, controlling arrangement helps match a textile-based material to its intended interaction with cells, tissues, or physiological fluids.
Changing fabrication conditions can alter the balance among porosity, mechanical strength, flexibility, surface area, and fluid transport. A structure designed for high fluid movement may differ from one emphasizing strength or flexibility. These adjustments allow the same general fabrication concept to support different biological and medical design requirements.
Material selection affects whether a fabricated textile is suitable for contact with biological systems. In bioengineering, researchers consider biological compatibility alongside structural performance, because the material may interact directly with cells, tissues, or physiological fluids. Selecting materials with appropriate compatibility helps align the textile’s construction with its intended biomedical role.
These fabrication routes provide different ways to organize fibers and therefore offer different structural possibilities. Weaving, knitting, braiding, and nonwoven assembly can be selected according to the desired combination of strength, flexibility, porosity, surface area, or fluid transport. The relevant choice depends on which performance characteristics the biological application requires.
A practical workflow begins by identifying the biological or medical function, then selecting suitable fibers and an assembly method. Researchers can adjust fabrication conditions and fiber arrangement to obtain the required structural properties, while considering biological compatibility. The resulting textile can then be evaluated according to its intended interaction with cells, tissues, or fluids.
For tissue-engineering scaffolds and wound dressings, fabrication creates structured materials whose porosity, strength, flexibility, surface area, and fluid transport can be tailored to the application. Material selection also contributes biological compatibility. These combined controls support designs intended to interact with tissues while providing a defined physical textile structure.
Filtration systems can benefit from controlled textile structure and fluid transport, while wearable biomedical devices can require useful combinations of flexibility, strength, and surface area. Textile fabrication provides a way to adjust these characteristics through material selection, fiber arrangement, and manufacturing conditions, extending the approach beyond tissue-focused applications in bioengineering.