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Journal of Materials Science and Nanotechnology | Volume: 3
March 20-21, 2019 | London, UK
Materials Science and Materials Chemistry
2
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International Conference on
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mart textiles, encompassing electronics combined with
textiles also called textronics or e-textiles, have a very
promising realm in science and technology nowadays because
of commercial viability and public interests. Smart textiles play
a significant role as well in the European textile sector and assist
the textile industry in its transformation into a competitive
knowledge driven industry. Numerous materials and systems
are available together with devices for sensing and actuation,
but they are not compatible with a textile or with the textile
production processes. They could be transformed into a textile
compatible structure or even in a full textile structure.
Smart textiles can be defined as textiles that are able to sense
and respond to changes in their environment.
They are able to detect different signals from the environment
(temperature, light intensity, pollution…), to decide how to
react and finally to act using various textile based, flexible
or miniaturized actuators (textile displays, micro vibrating
devices, LED, OLED…). The “decision” can be taken locally in
case of embedded electronic devices (textile electronics) to
smart textile structures or remotely in case the smart textile
is wirelessly connected to clouds containing data base, servers
with artificial intelligence software etc. and may be a part of
Internet of Things (IoT) concept.
This study focusses on research results concerning:
-e-textiles for medical applications (Actinic Keratoses Photo
Dynamic Therapy and ECG monitoring and diagnostics in real
time),
-Flexible displays based on electrochromic reaction for car dash
boards,
-New generation of meta materials for energy harvesting and
data transmission and on
-Fibrous sensors embedded to composite structures for
Structural Health Monitoring in real time, in situ.
Speaker Biography
Vladan Koncar is Distinguished Professor at ENSAIT (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Arts et Industries Textiles) an engineering institute in Roubaix, France – at University
of Lille. He obtained his PhD in 1991 at the University of Lille in Villeneuve d’Ascq from
November 2009 to November 2015 he was Head of Research at ENSAIT and Director
of GEMTEX research laboratory. Koncar was AUTEX (Association of Universities
for Textiles) President from June 2007 to June 2010. Koncar has also been Director
of ENSAT International Relations from 2007 to 2009. He still serves as an elected
member of ENSAIT Governing Board. He has been promoted Doctor Honoris Causa
of the University of Iasi, Romania in January 2010. Koncar is author of more than 250
scientific articles (ISI Web of science referred, book chapters, conference proceedings
and patents). His research interests cover the area of flexible textile sensors and
actuators, smart textile structures and modelling and control of complex systems.
e:
vladan.koncar@ensait.frVladan Koncar
University of Lille, France
Smart textiles and their applications in different areas