Fibronectin (FN) textiles are built as nanometer-thick fabrics. When uniaxially loaded, these fabrics exhibit a distinct threshold between elastic and plastic deformation with increasing stretch. Fabric mechanics are modeled using an eight-chain network and two-state model, revealing that elastic properties of FN depend on conformational extension of the protein and that plastic deformation dep...

S witch fabrics are fundamental building blocks in a wide range of communication platforms. However, despite the growing need for next-generation switches and routers, semiconductor vendors have been slow to develop switch fabric chipsets. In addition to the many technical challenges associated with the deployment of such fabrics, industry analysts agree that a key factor impeding wide-scale ex...

Hydrophilisation of polyester textile materials has been investigated over the last twenty years using low-pressure and atmospheric plasmas. According to these studies, wettability and capillarity of fabrics can be significantly improved depending on the process gas used. In the present study, the effects of low pressure O 2 and NH 3 plasma on the morphology and topometry of fabrics on four dif...

Rolled stationary phases are fabrics (i.e., nonparticulate phases) that rapidly separate proteins from salts on the basis of size exclusion. Pore size and pore size distributions in the stationary phase determine how different size molecules distribute between the stationary and mobile phases in liquid chromatography columns. The potential for size exclusion chromatography by fabrics is not ini...

Cellulose fabrics were coated with single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) by a dip-drying process. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Raman spectroscopy analyses indicate the attachment of SWCNTs. The sheet resistance of SWCNT coated fabrics can be altered by modifying the raw cellulose fabrics with low pressure argon plasma. An initial plasma ablation of up to 3 min results in the decreas...

In modern chip architectures, the increase in parallelisation brings about highly complex on-chip communication fabrics. We present WickedXmas, a tool that facilitates the design and formal verification of such interconnects. The tool is based on the language xMAS, which is a high level design language for communication fabrics, originally proposed by Intel. The use of xMAS ensures that many co...

detection scheme for solving the problem of automated defect detection for textile fabrics. In the development of the scheme, Gabor wavelet network (GWN) is deployed as the major technique to extract texture features from textile fabrics. An optimal Gabor filter is then designed on the basis of the features extracted. The proposed defect detection scheme consists of one real-valued optimal Gabo...

A new mechanical model is proposed in this paper to evaluate the shearing properties for woven fabrics during the initial slip region. Compared to the existing mechanical model for fabric shear, this model involves not only bending but also torsion of curved yarns. This model has the advantage of taking into consideration the yarn undulation in fabrics while keeping mathematical rigor. Moreover...

A simple method is presented for forming thread-like fibers from highly viscous dextran solutions. Based on the cohesive and adhesive forces between a dextran solution and the substrate to which it is applied, multiple fibers of approximately 10 μm in diameter can be elongated simultaneously. These fibers can be woven into multiple layers to produce fabrics of varying fiber orientations and mec...

Multicycle reuse of disperse dyebaths on pilot scale jet equipment was investigated in dyeing of staple and filament 100% polyester knit fabrics. Long reuse runs of single shades produced good batch-to-batch shade uniformity. Multishade reuse runs were found feasible in the forward (light-mediumdark) direction for both fabric types even though dyes were not completely common in successive shade...