H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2020

GFSMART · Design and Integration of Graphene Fibre Based Antennas for Smart Textiles

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-04-01 → 2020-03-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 455 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-CAR

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Design and Integration of Graphene Fibre Based Antennas for Smart Textiles

In the era of the Internet of things (IoT), textiles that surround us in daily life can create a functional interface that facilitates connectivity. The project focuses on exploring a new tangible interface for the IoT network and tackles one of the critical components, the antennas, in wireless communication. Textiles, including electronic components, are about to face tremendous environmental and resource challenges due to the complexity of sorting, the risk to supplies and metal contamination in textile recycling streams. Besides, meeting the requirement for textiles to exhibit qualities of drapability, touch, lightness and washability when combined with metals, creates new challenges in making the textiles wearable. Proposing invisibly and unobtrusively electronic integration of these components into wearables became essential especially while designing for the young children and elderly people mainly with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia due to their preferences for haptic interaction and lacking control on some external devices such as tracking devices, and other communication tools. Not limited to wearables, textiles can offer a new communication interface that promises tangible hidden connectivity in the context of tracking and monitoring of vulnerable children either in outdoor/indoor settings, and elderly and people with disabilities to provide services in public spaces and transportation, architectural spaces for anonymously tracking patients for disease spreading, and many more. We attempted to create a graphene-based communicating piece of cloth that grounded in textile making knowledge, electronics and material science. Different antennas for ultra-wideband communication that benefits from graphene assemblies as the radiating element such as graphene fibres, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) grown multi-layer (ML) graphene sheets on the textile surfaces and as a reference graphene-based inks were designed. The promised textile-based antennas covered a wide bandwidth ranging from 3 GHz to 9 GHz, which is a promising solution for a high data rate and efficient communication link. We highlighted the textile requirements that we can positively contribute to the wearing comfort and sustainability of e-textiles when offering technological communication solutions. Also, several issues associated with being worn on the body and the effects of bending and proximity to the human body on the antenna’s overall performance were investigated.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Smart textiles that provide a seamless command-oriented user interface and have capable of wireless communication, have become active research field in recent decades with interest of wearable and attractive platforms. Well-known mechanical requirements such as light weight, compactness, and flexibility, that smart components should be invisibly and unobtrusively integrated into a garment to ensure the wearer’s comfort. GFSMART aims to develop graphene fibre based antennas for smart textiles that pushes the state-of-the-art in wireless body-centric systems, by utilizing traditional textile manufacturing techniques. Wearable antenna will be developed based on the merits of graphene as a flexible, conductive fibres. GFSMART project does not only involve implementation of novel materials and wearable electronics but also embraces design strategies of smart adaptive garments for people affected by dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The proposal hosting by Royal College of Art (RCA), will involve collaboration with other EU universities, which will increase the impact of the developed results on the textile industry and enable my career restart in European research zone. GFSMART will lead to first implementation of graphene fibres in wearable antenna design and later in designing smart garments for people affected by dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. I have extensive experience on carbon nanomaterials and novel materials for textile applications and published more than 30 critically acclaimed journal and conference papers, patents in this subject. Through this innovative multidisciplinary research and with the help of experimental infrastructure provided by the RCA, as a newly appointed senior tutor in smart textiles at RCA, I am expected to gain maturity in managing research projects and advance my career toward being an esteemed professor in the field of smart textiles in Europe.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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