Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization
The merging of electronic materials and textiles has triggered the proliferation of wearables and interactive surfaces in the ubiquitous computing era. However, this leads to e-textile waste that is difficult to recycle and decompose. Instead, we demonstrate an eco-design approach to upcycle waste c...
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| author | Wicaksono, Irmandy Maheshwari, Aditi Haddad, Don Derek Paradiso, Joseph Danielescu, Andreea |
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| description | The merging of electronic materials and textiles has triggered the proliferation of wearables and interactive surfaces in the ubiquitous computing era. However, this leads to e-textile waste that is difficult to recycle and decompose. Instead, we demonstrate an eco-design approach to upcycle waste cotton fabrics into functional textile elements through carbonization without the need for additional materials. We identify optimal parameters for the carbonization process and develop encapsulation techniques to improve the response, durability, and washability of the carbonized textiles. We then configure these e-textiles into various ‘design primitives’ including sensors, interconnects, and heating elements, and evaluate their electromechanical properties against commercially available e-textiles. Using these primitives, we demonstrate several applications, including a haptic-transfer fabric, a joint-sensing wearable, and an intelligent sailcloth. Finally, we highlight how the sensors can be composted, re-carbonized, and coated onto other fabrics, or repurposed into different sensors towards their end-of-life to promote a circular manufacturing process. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1552062024-09-16T20:48:46Z Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization Wicaksono, Irmandy Maheshwari, Aditi Haddad, Don Derek Paradiso, Joseph Danielescu, Andreea Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory The merging of electronic materials and textiles has triggered the proliferation of wearables and interactive surfaces in the ubiquitous computing era. However, this leads to e-textile waste that is difficult to recycle and decompose. Instead, we demonstrate an eco-design approach to upcycle waste cotton fabrics into functional textile elements through carbonization without the need for additional materials. We identify optimal parameters for the carbonization process and develop encapsulation techniques to improve the response, durability, and washability of the carbonized textiles. We then configure these e-textiles into various ‘design primitives’ including sensors, interconnects, and heating elements, and evaluate their electromechanical properties against commercially available e-textiles. Using these primitives, we demonstrate several applications, including a haptic-transfer fabric, a joint-sensing wearable, and an intelligent sailcloth. Finally, we highlight how the sensors can be composted, re-carbonized, and coated onto other fabrics, or repurposed into different sensors towards their end-of-life to promote a circular manufacturing process. 2024-06-06T16:32:43Z 2024-06-06T16:32:43Z 2024-05-13 2024-06-01T07:58:20Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2474-9567 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155206 Wicaksono, Irmandy, Maheshwari, Aditi, Haddad, Don Derek, Paradiso, Joseph and Danielescu, Andreea. 2024. "Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 8 (2). PUBLISHER_POLICY en 10.1145/3659588 Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The author(s) application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery Association for Computing Machinery |
| spellingShingle | Wicaksono, Irmandy Maheshwari, Aditi Haddad, Don Derek Paradiso, Joseph Danielescu, Andreea Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization |
| title | Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization |
| title_full | Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization |
| title_fullStr | Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization |
| title_short | Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization |
| title_sort | design and fabrication of multifunctional e textiles by upcycling waste cotton fabrics through carbonization |
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