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• Drug Release

• Membranes

• Sensors

• Flexible / Wearable Electronics

• Artificial Muscles

• Controlled wettability

• Batteries

• Super-capacitors

Charge Transfer

Physical Properties

Chemical Composition

Electronic Properties

Nanostructured Electromaterials

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Material

Processing

Fabrication

Machinery

Devices

Materials, Design & Discovery – Material Processing – Fabrication Machinery - Devices

One Strength Supporting Another

Materials,

Design &

Discovery

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Core

Shell

Fiber Spinning Capabilities Biopolymer Fibers

Conducting Fibres

Fibers loaded with Bioactive Molecules

Fibers loaded with Cells

Reactive Spinning

Coaxial – Triaxial Spinning

Electrospinning ( Nanofibre, NanoYarn)

Core

Shell

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Wet Spinning Line (Mass production)

Wet Spinning

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Coaxial Spinning

Alg

Graphene

PPy

Alg

•Production of the hollow Alginate fibers with a conductive inner wall

•Production of the core-sheath PPy-Alginate and Graphene -Alg fibres

•Production of Hollow Alginate fibres

•Production of core-sheath Alginate /Chitosan fibres

Core

Shell

Core

Shell

Hollow Alg Fibres

Chitosan

Alg

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Melt Spinning

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Yarn Production

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Triaxial and Coaxial E-Spinning

Coaxial Electrospinning

Triaxial Electrospinning

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Hybrid Carbon Nanotube -Graphene NanoFibres

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Fabrication Capabilities

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Weft Knitting in IPRI

Capability to produce knitted structure from 1 up to 5 mm

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Knitted Fabric

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Braiding in IPRI

Braider Winder

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Braiding

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Knit-Braiding in IPRI

Capability to produce Knit-Braided structure from 1 up to 10 mm

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A Novel 3D Carbon Nanotube Knitted Fabric

CNT wrapped spandex Knitted Fabric

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3D CNT Knitted fabric (CNT yarn-Spandex)

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What is the next?

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3D CNT Knitted fabric (CNT yarn-Spandex)

2200

2300

2400

2500

2600

2700

2800

Resis

tan

ce (

Oh

m)

Cycle

0% Strain

100% Strain

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Wearable

Implantable

Electronics Biology Materials

Monitoring and Manipulating Human Movement Energy for Bionics

Wearable Bionics

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Wearable Bionics – Monitoring Motion

Rehabilitation, Diagnosis & Prevention

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A B C

G H

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F

D

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Link to Youtube Animation

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Applications- Lymph Sleeve

Link to Fishing Line Fabric Muscle Youtube Video

Link to Youtube Animation

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