Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) harness the metabolism of microorganisms, converting chemical energy into electrical energy. Anode performance is an important factor limiting the power density of MFCs for practical application. Improving the anode design is thus important for enhancing the MFC performance, but only a little development has been reported. Here, we describe a biocompatible, highly co...

A sensor based on a Conductive Polymer Composite (CPC), fully compatible with a textile substrate and its general properties, has been developed in our laboratory, and its electromechanical characterization is presented herein. In particular the effects of strain rate (from 10 to 1,000 mm/min) and of repeated elongation cycles on the sensor behaviour are investigated. The results show that stra...

Present work is an effort to reveal the junction properties of gold (Au) / Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods based Schottky diode by using the frequency dependent electrical properties. The most important electrical parameters such as conductance (G), resistance (R), capacitance (C) and impedance (Z) were studied as function of frequency across the series of AC voltages. Moreover, current density-volta...

The recent advancements in technology in the wireless technology has led to rise of wearable antennas made of different fabrics. It is an unconventional antenna, meant to be a part of clothing and body. The radiating element is made of copper or any other conductor while the substrate used for wearable antenna application are textile or cloth based material. This literature review tends to reve...

Textile scaffolds can be found in a variety of application areas in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. In the present study we used electrostatic flocking-a well-known textile technology-to produce scaffolds for tissue engineering of bone. Flock scaffolds stand out due to their unique structure: parallel arranged fibers that are aligned perpendicularly to a substrate, resulting in me...

A novel compact textile antenna with the appearance of a button on clothing for body-centric wireless communications systems (BWCS) is presented. The antenna is placed on a textile substrate and fed by a coaxial line through the ground plane. The operating bandwidth of the antenna has met the requirement of the UWB communication system. The effects of the human body on S11 and S21 are presented...

Vascular grafts based on permeable textile structures are now a widely accepted technology. The performance of the graft is largely dependent on the ability to allow controlled blood to flow through its thickness, yet predicting this flow rate is still not widely understood. An analytical model is in development based on fabric construction parameters, with the aim being to predict the permeabi...

Traditional textile materials can be transformed into functional electronic components upon being dyed or coated with films of intrinsically conducting polymers, such as poly(aniline), poly(pyrrole) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene). A variety of textile electronic devices are built from the conductive fibers and fabrics thus obtained, including: physiochemical sensors, thermoelectric fibers...