Monolayer Graphene Has Been Successfully Pferred To Textile Fibers.

Researchers have successfully pferred single-layer graphene to the common fibers in the textile industry, and this pparent head material is expected to be applied to embedded wearable electronic products in the future, such as mobile phone bars, fitness tracker, or MP3 player.

The team said that the single layer graphene material is very suitable for this application, because it is not only flexible, but also has certain mechanical strength and electrical conductivity.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on copper foil.

After making the single layer graphene, the researchers began to pfer it to polypropylene fiber.

This complex process includes the will.

From the copper foil to the common polypropylene fiber in the textile industry.

The method includes using before etching.

(PMMA) spin coated graphene / copper substrate. After pferring graphene to fiber, the PMMA film is removed by hot acetone and the continuous graphene layer is left on the fiber.

The Exeter University, the Belgian Textile Research Center (CenTexBel), systems engineering and Computer Research Institute, Lisbon Institute of microsystems and Nanotechnology (INESC-MN), Lisbon University, and Portuguese Aveiro jointly cooperated and achieved this achievement.

Isabel De Schrijver said: "this disruptive technology has opened up a wide range of applications for wearable electronics, and we expect the electronics industry to be adopted in the future".

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The results of the "China textile industry science and technology innovation and development strategy study (2016-2030)" released by 13 academicians and 130 experts in two years' completion of the key research project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering - "China's textile industry science and technology innovation and development strategy research" were released today.

The results of the project point out that the technological level of China's textile industry is striving to be world-class in 2020, and reached the international leading position in 2030. It supports the pformation of the textile industry from labor intensive, resource consuming to technology intensive, resource-saving and environment-friendly, and achieving the "value oriented" strategic pformation.

The results of the project indicate that at present, China's textile industry has a weak capability of independent innovation, and some high-end products and equipment depend on imports. The integration of technology and equipment is relatively low. The creative design of clothing is still in the stage of imitation and imitation, with the low rate of localization of some high-end textile materials, the weak ability of collaborative innovation, the lack of investment and the shortage of talents, and the urgent need to form low-carbon green textiles in the whole life cycle. It is urgent to break through the bottleneck from big to strong through the continuous innovation of science and technology in textile industry.

The research group focuses on the theme of how to upgrade the technology of textile industry under the background of high-tech development. It focuses on the trend of high-end, diversified, intelligent, green, service-oriented and integrated development in the main fields of textile industry, as well as the realities and huge demands of the sustained development of urbanization, the continuous growth of residents' income, and the increasingly severe constraints of resources and environment. It also proposes a general roadmap of goals, tasks and comprehensive development from basic research to key technologies to industrial applications, as well as the roadmap for innovation and development in various fields of technology.

Yu Jianyong, vice president of the Chinese Academy of engineering and vice president of Donghua University, told reporters that the technological innovation roadmap of China's textile industry is divided into two stages, one is the development of "13th Five-Year", and the other is for the future development in 2030.

Around the industrial chain, there are two major support from the aspects of new fiber materials, advanced textile processing technology, ecological dyeing and finishing technology, modern garment processing technology, industrial textile technology and so on: first, the high-end equipment manufacturing; two, the information technology of the industrial chain and the economic and trade management technology of the textile industry, to explore the scientific and technological innovation ideas based on the new format.