Wearable Electroactive Fabrics Integrated in Garments

Project Information

WEAFING

Grant agreement ID: 825232

DOI 10.3030/825232

Project closed

EC signature date 24 October 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 3 844 862,50

EU contribution € 3 844 862,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE
Netherlands

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Video of prototype garment
Two annual platform opportunities presenting current project status

Documents, reports (28)

Relevant use case description
Project Management Guidelines incl. Quality Control guidelines and Risk management
Update of D6.4 on design guideline for actuator arrangement and activation patterns on use cases

Update of D64 on design guideline for actuator arrangement and activation patterns on use cases

Idea book containing market-product combinations
Tested and technical working solution of flexible actuator setup for haptic feedback user tests
Fabric with actuator segments
EAP coated commercial yarn delivered
Report on design guideline for actuator arrangement and activation patterns - general guidelines

Report on design guideline for actuator arrangement and activation patterns general guidelines

"Second generation of ionogels based on PILs as ""dry"" coatings and report on the choice of best ionogel between task 2.1.3 and 2.2"

Second generation of ionogels based on PILs as dry coatings and report on the choice of best ionogel between task 213 and 22

Ionogel coatings with grafting ability for twisted and curled electroactive yarns
Report on perceptual and experience profiling of simulated actuators
Report on information encoding
Fabric with multiple actuators that can be address by conducting lines
Design recipes (handbook) for soft mechatronics

Design recipes handbook for soft mechatronics

First generation of ionogels that can be coated on electroactive yarns
Ionogels with properties adapted to requirements of textile production
Weaved and knitted textiles for coating
Fabric with sensors and actuators
R&D Roadmap
Update of D6.1 on perceptual and experience profiling of real textile actuators
Twisted in-air yarn actuators

Twisted inair yarn actuators

Upscaled production of ionogels
First generation of electroactive yarns
Report on the evaluation of prototype garments
Internal report on how to make textile constructions
Tested integrated soft mechatronic systems

Tested integrated soft mechatronic systems (as has been used in WP6), report and setup

Second update on D6.6 on the evaluation of prototype garments
First update on D6.6 on the evaluation of prototype garments

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Prototype garments

5 Prototype garments for a single use case that can be used for user evaluations (WP6) and demonstrations at exhibitions and symposia.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Photopolymerizable Ionogel with Healable Properties Based on Dioxaborolane Vitrimer Chemistry

Author(s): Fengdi Li, Giao T. M. Nguyen, Cédric Vancaeyzeele, Frédéric Vidal, Cédric Plesse
Published in: Gels, 2022, ISSN 2310-2861
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/gels8060381

Highly Stretchable and Ionically Conductive Membranes with Semi-Interpenetrating Network Architecture for Truly All-Solid-State Microactuators and Microsensors

Author(s): Frédéric Braz Ribeiro, Bin Ni, Giao T. M. Nguyen, Eric Cattan, Alexander S. Shaplov, Frédéric Vidal, Cédric Plesse
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Advanced Materials Interfaces
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202202381

Effect of Core Yarn on Linear Actuation of Electroactive Polymer Coated Yarn Actuators

Author(s): Shayan Mehraeen, Milad Asadi, Jose G. Martinez, Nils-Krister Persson, Jonas Stålhand, Edwin W.H. Jager
Published in: Advanced Materials Technologies, 2023, ISSN 2365-709X
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/admt.202300460

The Effect of Actuation Speed on the Perception Threshold of a Squeezing Soft Actuator

Author(s): Judith Weda, Jan van Erp, Angelika Mader
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Issue Volume: 16, Issue: 4, 2023, Page(s) 574 - 579, ISSN 1939-1412
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/toh.2023.3273774

Artificial Muscles from Hybrid Carbon Nanotube-Polypyrrole-Coated Twisted and Coiled Yarns

Author(s): Shazed Aziz; Jose G. Martinez; Javad Foroughi; Geoffrey M. Spinks; Edwin W. H. Jager
Published in: Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Issue Volume 305, Issue 11, 2020, ISSN 1439-2054
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/mame.202000421

Healable Ionoelastomer Designed from Polymeric Ionic Liquid and Vitrimer Chemistry

Author(s): Fengdi Li, Giao. T. M. Nguyen, Cédric Vancaeyzeele, Frédéric Vidal, Cédric Plesse
Published in: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2022, ISSN 2637-6105
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.2c01635

Conjugated Polymer Actuators and Devices: Progress and Opportunities.

Author(s): Daniel Melling; Jose G. Martinez; Edwin W. H. Jager
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue Volume 31, Issue 22, 2019, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201808210

Fast and High‐Strain Electrochemically Driven Yarn Actuators in Twisted and Coiled Configurations

Author(s): Shazed Aziz, Jose G. Martinez, Bidita Salahuddin, Nils‐Krister Persson, Edwin W. H. Jager
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, Page(s) 2008959, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202008959

Textile Actuators Comprising Reduced Graphene Oxide as the Current Collector

Author(s): Sujan Dutta, Shayan Mehraeen, Jose G. Martinez, Tariq Bashir, Nils-Krister Persson, Edwin W. H. Jager
Published in: Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2023, ISSN 1438-7492
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/mame.202300318

Enhancing the Conductivity of the Poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene)‐Poly(styrenesulfonate) Coating and Its Effect on the Performance of Yarn Actuators

Author(s): Freddy Escobar-Teran, Jose G. Martinez, Nils-Krister Persson, Edwin W. H. Jager
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 2/5, 2020, Page(s) 1900184, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.201900184

Linear contracting and air-stable electrochemical artificial muscles based on commercially available CNT yarns and ionically selective ionogel coatings

Author(s): Bin Ni, Frédéric Braz Ribeiro, Cédric Vancaeyzeele, Giao T.M. Nguyen, Edwin W.H. Jager, Frédéric Vidal, Cédric Plesse
Published in: Applied Materials Today, 2023, ISSN 2352-9407
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2023.101756

Artificial muscle based on coiled CNT yarns and biofriendly ionogels

Author(s): Bin Ni, Loris Gelas, Gabriela Ananieva, Cédric Vancaeyzeele, Giao T.M. Nguyen, Frédéric Vidal, Cédric Plesse
Published in: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Issue 403, 2024, Page(s) 135227, ISSN 0925-4005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2023.135227

Vitrimer ionogels towards sustainable solid-state electrolytes

Author(s): Fengdi Li, Giao T. M. Nguyen, Cédric Vancaeyzeele, Frédéric Vidal and Cédric Plesse
Published in: RSC Advances, 2023, ISSN 2046-2069
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2ra06829j

The effect of electroactive length and intrinsic conductivity on the actuation behaviour of conducting polymer-based yarn actuators for textile muscles

Author(s): Sujan Dutta, Shayan Mehraeen, Nils-Krister Persson, Jose G.Martinez, Edwin W.H.Jager
Published in: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2022, ISSN 0925-4005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2022.132384

Electrochemical Considerations for the Electropolymerization of PPy on PEDOT:PSS for Yarn Actuator Applications

Author(s): Dr. Jose G. Martinez, Dr. Shayan Mehraeen, Prof. Edwin W. H. Jager
Published in: ChemElectroChem, 2023, ISSN 2196-0216
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/celc.202300188

Ionofibers: Ionically Conductive Textile Fibers for Conformal i-Textiles

Author(s): Claude Huniade, Daniel Melling, Cédric Vancaeyzeele, Giao T.-M. Nguyen, Frédéric Vidal, Cédric Plesse, Edwin W. H. Jager, Tariq Bashir, Nils-Krister Persson
Published in: Advanced Materials Technologies, 2022, ISSN 2365-709X
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/admt.202101692