In this paper we report the successful development of pressure sensitive textile prototypes based on flexible optical fibers technology. Our approach is based on thermoplastic silicone fibers, which can be integrated into woven textiles. As soon as pressure at a certain area of the textile is applied to these fibers they change their cross section reversibly, due to their elastomeric character,...

Natural fibers have been used as an alternative to synthetic ones for their greener character; banana fibers have the advantage of coming from an agricultural residue. Fibers have been extracted by mechanical means from banana tree pseudostems, as a strategy to valorize banana crops residues. To increase the mechanical properties of the composite, technical textiles can be used as reinforcement...

Transparent and flexible electrodes are widely used on a variety of substrates such as plastics and glass. Yet, to date, transparent electrodes on a textile substrate have not been explored. The exceptional electrical, mechanical and optical properties of monolayer graphene make it highly attractive as a transparent electrode for applications in wearable electronics. Here, we report the transfe...

Synthetic fibers, especially polyester, have over past decades managed to overtake and dominate the textile industry. Microplastic fibers are shed from synthetic textiles during their user phase, primarily washing. However, there is little known about origin, except that they likely embedded in already since production. Therefore, we systematically examined presence of microplastic process yarn...

Synthetic fibers enter wastewater treatment plants together with natural fibers, which may affect efficiency, a fact not considered in previous studies. Therefore, the aim of present study was to evaluate efficiency coagulation/flocculation process for removal mixture textile from different water matrices. Natural and synthetic (100 mg/L; cotton, polyacrylonitrile, polyamide) were added matrix,...