Entangled – Reimagining textile functionalities
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These textiles are active elements in their environments, responding to environmental stimuli by changing their shape, colour or other qualities.
Entangled merges physics, crafting, materials engineering and textile design to reimagine, materialise and realise novel textile concepts. The project develops heat- and light-responsive yarns and fabrics that produce useful actions without embedding traditional electric circuits.
Balancing technological advancements, sustainability concerns and seamless integration into daily life, this project fosters Nordic cooperation for advancing interdisciplinary, holistic approaches to heat- and light-powered textiles.
Threads of tomorrow – textiles that react to light and heat
A joint Nordic project is developing light- and heat-reactive textiles. In the future, curtains will regulate room temperature, clothing will help monitor blood pressure, and cotton will clean itself in sunlight.
The butterfly effect – bending and turning artificial muscles with light
In the future, the innovation could be used in for example the development of smart textiles, soft robotics and medicine.
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Aalto University, School of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor Jaana Vapaavuori
Doctoral researcher Zahra Madani
Postdoctoral researcher Pedro Silva
Doctoral researcher Mithila Mohan
Doctoral researcher Maija Vaara
Doctoral researcher Matteo Iannacchero
Doctoral researcher Laura Koskelo
Project coordinator Giulnara Launonen
University of Turku
Professor Kati Miettunen
Doctoral researcher Alicja Lawrynowicz
Doctoral researcher Rustem Nizamov
University of Borås
Professor Delia Dumitrescu
Postdoctoral researcher Erin Lewis
Postdoctoral researcher Riikka Talman
Via University College
Senior Associate Professor, Ph.D. Anne Louise Bang
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Malene Pilgaard Harsaae
Research Manager Poul-Erik Jørgensen
Associate Professor Inger Marie Ladekarl
Associate Professor Lena Kramer Pedersen
Assistant Professor Tina Cecilie Bull Nielsen
Research assistant Amalie Ege
Iceland University of the Arts
Associate Professor Thomas Pausz
Assistant Professor Ragna Sigríður Bjarnadóttir
This project is (partly) supported by NordForsk through the funding to Nordic network on smart light-conversion textiles beyond electric circuits (Beyond e-Textiles), project number 103894, and by the European Research Council funding to Autonomously adapting and communicating modular textiles (ModelCom), project number 949648.
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