Equipping textiles with electrical power will potentially open up new functionalities and new markets that do not exist now. This  session will represent a unique opportunity to gather together experts from academia and industry working on textiles with self-powering capabilities. This research field has a strongly multidisciplinary character as it requires an extremely wide range of expertise and skills, spanning from materials, engineering, physiology and social sciences. The focus is on fiber-based and knitted materials with novel energy storage and/or energy harvesting functionalities, that allow envisaging innovative and breakthrough applications in smart textiles. The attention is not limited to the characterization, design, and development of novel materials, smart textiles and sensing devices, but it also targets issues related to the production and commercialization of innovative materials and garments.

Moderated by: Nian Liu, Assistant Professor, Materials and Nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Speakers:

Po-Chun Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
Kelvin Fu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
Sheng Xu, Assistant Professor of Nanoengineering, Bioengineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego