Electrically Conductive Fabrics as Device Monitors
July 5, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
Professor Jesse Jur
Clothing with embedded sensors exists today, but textile researchers, Professors Jessie Jur and Gregory Parsons at North Carolina State University have gone a step beyond that with conductive nanocoatings deposited on woven cotton. With this, they foresee common textiles becoming complex electronic devices that can, for instance, monitor a wearer’s heart rate, body temperature and movement. MORE
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