Highly flexible and electrically-conductive multifunctional textiles are desirable for use in wearable electronic applications. In this study, we fabricated multifunctional textile composites by vacuum filtration and wet-transfer of graphene oxide films on a flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) textile in association with embedding Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) to improve the electrical conduct...

Spinal schwannomas are commonly intradural extramedullary in location. As Schwann cells are not common in the central nervous system, intramedullary schwannomas are a rare entity. In adults, an estimated sixty cases have been reported in English literature. They are rarer in children (less than ten cases), and preoperative diagnosis becomes a prerogative in achieving total excision. Cervical co...

Central arterial hemodynamics (blood pressure and velocity) as a function of ontogeny and season were determined in larval Rana catesbeiana (body mass 0.3-8.7 g, 20-22 degrees C). Ventricular systolic pressure increased from 1.8 mmHg at stage (St) II to 11.9 mmHg at St XIII, while ventricular diastolic pressures usually were less than 1.0 mmHg. In early stages (up to St V-VII) of fall/winter la...

Heart rate and blood pressure were measured in lightly anesthetized developing Xenopus laevis from hatching (body mass approximately 3 mg) to the end of metamorphosis (< or = 1 g). Blood pressures in the conus arteriosus, truncus arteriosus, and ventricle were measured by a servo-null micropressure system. Heart rate was determined from blood pressure recordings, and cardiac cycles were videota...

An intelligent textile is a textile structure that measures and reacts in front of external agents or stimulus with or without integrated electronic equipment. . The finality of the present textile is to take one more step towards intelligent textile, considering the integration of electronics and textile needs, to be industrially viable and to keep up the necessary competitiveness, raising the...

This work shows a developed wearable elongation sensor based on an optical fiber. The presented approach to sew a fiber optic into a lycra textile enables the modulation of light amplitude in respect to textile strain. This apparatus in combination with small-size instrumentation enables the development of a wearable textile garment capable of monitoring and acquiring strain data, and send it w...

Forest covers about one-third of the land area conterminous United States (CONUS) and plays an important role in offsetting carbon emissions supporting local economies. Growing interest forests as relatively cost-effective nature-based climate solutions, particularly restoration reforestation activities has increased demand for information on forest regrowth recovery following natural anthropog...

Coating and lamination are two functional processes which are used make a proper finishing to the textile material. The coating formulation with different textile grade polymer like PVC, PU, acrylic, PTFE are hugely used to make a textile product with multipurpose way likewaterproof protective clothing, tarpaulin, protective clothing, electrical insulation etc. on the other hand lamination proc...

Lan XU *, Jiang-Hui ZHAO , and Hua LIU c,d a Nantong Textile Institute, Soochow University, Nantong, China b National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China c College of Textile and Costume, Yancheng Institute of Industry Technology, Yancheng, China d Jiangsu R&D Center of the Ecological Textile Engineering and Tech...