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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
TUESDAY, OCT. 11
Advanced Textiles Conference
Session rooms are located on Level 3, West Meeting Rooms W207A, W207BC,
W207D and W201CD. Must have All Access registration type.
11:30 am-12:45 pm
Welcome Lunch and Opening
Plenary Session: Imagining our
Material Future - Developments
at the Forefront of Performance
and Sustainability
Dr. Andrew Dent, Executive Vice President
of Research, Material ConneXion
ROOM W208
Materials have never been more important yet
more polarizing-they can be a blight on our most
beautiful landscapes but also save countless lives.
Materials innovation continues to give us stronger,
more durable, more efficient solutions, yet has
not managed to solve some of our most basic
recycling and " end of life " issues. This presentation
brings together both good and bad developments
in the material world related to industrial fabrics
and how this industry compares to others with
similar challenges. It will also attempt to provide
some insight into what we might expect both from
material innovation as well as customer demand in
the coming decade.
1-1:50 pm
Choose one to attend
3D Printing and Advanced Textiles:
Disrupting the Industry
Colton Mehlhoff, Applications Engineer, Stratasys
ROOM W207BC
Explore how 3D printing is changing the textile
world. From 3D printed dresses to handbags and
shoes, the impact is just beginning. We will discuss
a brief history of 3D printing, technologies available
for 3D printing, how the fashion industry is printing
on fabric today and where 3D printing and textiles is
going in the future.
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Textile Challenges of
Manned Lunar Missions
Drew Hoyle, Aerospace Textile Engineer,
NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)
ROOM W207A
What does it take to make functioning and long
lasting space suits, crew clothing, and technical
textiles for Moon missions? The session will discuss
the current textile challenges NASA is facing in
its effort to return to the Moon, what the Apollo
program did about these issues, and how the textile
industry can get involved.
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Scaling the Development
and Production of Advanced
Functional Fabrics
Dr. Jesse Jur, Director of Ecosystem
Technology, Advanced Functional
Fabrics of America (AFFOA)
ROOM W207D
For e-textiles to truly make the shift from
producing small volume products for highly
specialized markets to a widely adopted toolkit
of technologies used to enable products across a
diverse set of applications, the industry must mature
in several ways that go beyond the demonstration of
new capabilities. Industry infrastructure development
must be undertaken to support lower product
development costs and faster time to market for
e-textile products. These infrastructure elements
include simulation environments, digital threads and
addressing standards gaps to name a few. Through
collaborative R&D work enabled by a public-private
partnership, AFFOA is resolving manufacturing
technology gaps through investments in technology
maturation and broad industry infrastructure
roadmapping and development. Example projects
combining government needs with industry-driven
technology roadmaps will illustrate current methods
being used to address technology and infrastructure
gaps to increase manufacturability and scalability of
e-textile products.
2-2:50 pm
Choose one to attend
Development of Environmentally
Friendly Biological Protective Textiles
Dr. Gang Sun, Professor, University
of California, Davis
ROOM W207BC
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need
for reusable, antiviral, and biodegradable PPE
materials for improved personal protection with
reduced environmental impact. In this presentation,
desired biological protective functions on biobased
polymers are discussed. Two chemical approaches,
halamine and daylight photo-sensitizers, have been
utilized to produce rechargeable biocidal functions
on PPE materials. The daylight induced antiviral and
antibacterial face masks will serve as examples of
reusable and safe functional textile materials.
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Using E-Textiles to Create
Comfortable and Effective
Wearable Technologies for
Various Market Segments
Erin Parker, Graduate Research Assistant,
Athlete Engineering, Mississippi State University
ROOM W207A
Differences in use case and working environment
require a clear vision for wearables across different
markets. How can designers, developers and
engineers know what fabric, sensor or body placement
is going to work for their customers? This session will
discuss Athlete Engineering's four athlete personas
and what each sector requires of wearables.
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Textile-Based Sensors and Electrical
Switches Made by Printing Technology
Dr. Reinhold Schneider, Head of Research Group
Color and Functional Printing, German Institutes of
Textile and Fibre Research Denkendorf (DITF)
ROOM W207D
Smart Textiles and e-Textiles represent a fastgrowing
market and proximity sensors and electrical
switches represent key components for this market.
A textile-based proximity sensor on the basis of
capacitance measurement was realized by printing
technology and enables contact-free switching of
electronic devices. The sensor signals were analyzed
with a miniaturized integrated electronic circuit as
well as with the help of a resonant circuit to control
a switching function. The sensor provides good
abrasion resistance.
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