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An Ultrahigh-Strength Braided Smart Yarn for Wearable Individual Sensing and Protection
The insufficient comprehensive mechanical properties and inadequate flexibility of wearable sensors limit their body-protection capability, durability, and comfort. There are challenges in using flexible weara...
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Large-scale Fabrication of Snake-skin-inspired Protective Composite Textiles
Inspired by the overlap** structure of snake scales, a reinforced scale-like knitted fabric (R-SLKF) was created in this work. To achieve this, short carbon fibers in an epoxy resin (ER) matrix were incorpor...
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High-Speed Sirospun Conductive Yarn for Stretchable Embedded Knitted Circuit and Self-Powered Wearable Device
In the intelligent era, the textile technique is a high efficiency, mature and simple manufacturing solution capable of fabricating fully flexible wearable devices. However, the external circuit with its integ...
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Innovatively treat rural food waste through producing organic grains
Food waste (FW) in a whole country contains a large amount of nitrogen which could be used to replace chemical fertilizers to produce organic grains, thus mitigating environmental pollution from the source. A ...
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Damage Characteristics of Cotton Yarn in High-speed Warp-knitting Processing from Finite Element Simulation
In this study, the damage of cotton yarn in high-speed warp knitting is studied by means of experimental analysis and finite element simulation. 60 s compact-spun cotton yarn was used as the experimental objec...
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Effect of Stitch Characteristics on Flammability and Thermo-Physiological Comfort Properties of Knitted Fabrics
Investigations on influence of stitch types in single jersey knitted fabric on flammability and comfort properties are carried out in this paper. Seven different knitted structures were developed on single jer...
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Open AccessSurface Morphology Analysis of Knit Structure-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Enhancing the Transfer Charge
Harvesting waste biomechanical energy has provided a promising approach to improve the power supplement of wearable devices for extending usage life. Surface morphology is a significant factor for enhancing ou...
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Compression Property of Curved Three-dimensional Flat-knitted Spacer Fabric Composites under Quasi-static Loading
In order to study the compression property of curved three-dimensional(3D) flat-knitted spacer fabric composites and to provide experimental data for the study of subsequent low speed impact and residual stren...
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Phylogeny and ecological processes influence grass coexistence at different spatial scales within the steppe biome
Phylogenetic analyses are essential for disentangling how environmental filtering and competition determine species coexistence across spatial scales. Inner Mongolia steppe has strong environmental gradients, ...
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Preparation and performance as PEM of sulfonated pre-oxidized nanofiber/SPEEK composite membrane
Building proton transfer channel is an important strategy to optimize the proton transfer process of the proton exchange membrane (PEM). In this work, sulfonated pre-oxidized nanofibers were prepared by soluti...
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Post-treatment and evaluation of polyester filament cotton-like fabric
Alkali reduction treatment was found to reach the imitation of cotton fabric and improve the wear ability of polyester fabric in this paper. Four main factors on the wearable ability were analyzed and through ...
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Experimental investigation on the quasi-static penetration behavior of curved multi-axial warp-knitted composites
The quasi-static penetration tests of the curved glass/phenolic multi-axial warp-knitted (MWK) composites with two types of preform structures and in three different curvatures were implemented. Three phases —...
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Evaluation of water absorption and transport properties of weft knitted polyester fabrics by spontaneous uptake water transport tester and conventional test methods
Water absorption and transport properties of fabrics, including initial contact of liquid with a dry fabric, liquid wicking through a fully saturated medium and removal of liquid from a fabric is important dur...
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Open AccessBiodiversity management of organic farming enhances agricultural sustainability
Organic farming (OF) has been believed to be capable of curtailing some hazardous effects associated with chemical farming (CF). However, debates also exist on whether OF can feed a world with increasing human...
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3-D dynamic behaviors simulation of weft knitted fabric based on particle system
In this work, a particle-based system is introduced to improve the sense of volume and reality of weft knitted fabric. This system is built through cuboid particle system to show the interlaced structures betw...
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Vermicomposting with maize increases agricultural benefits by 304 %
Pollution of agricultural ecosystems is due to the excessive use of mineral fertilizers and mass discharge of livestock manure. Therefore, there is a need for disposing manure safely, for instance by transform...
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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through replacement of chemical fertilizer with organic manure in a temperate farmland
Burning crop residues and excessive use of chemical fertilizers results in an enormous waste of biological resources, which further weakens the potential capacity of the agro-ecosystem as a carbon sink. To exp...
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Mechanical properties of co-woven-knitted fabric/epoxy composites incorporating carbon nanotubes
The mechanical properties of co-woven-knitted (CWK)/epoxy resin composites with various carbon nanotubes (CNTs) contents along different directions had been investigated. The tensile failure mode of CWK compos...
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Transverse impact characterization of carbon woven fabric-foam sandwich composites with carbon nanotubes
Different contents of carbon nanotubes were incorporated in an epoxy matrix that was then reinforced with carbon woven fabric and foam to manufacture the carbon woven fabric-foam sandwich composites. The trans...
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Tension and tear behaviors of co-woven-knitted fabric with photograph investigation
Co-woven-knitted (CWK) fabric is a novel structural fabric which combines the woven and knitted structures together. In this paper, the tension and tear properties of CWK fabric along different directions are ...
