RI-IWEAR Research Seminar X

This talk is mainly focused on scientific strategies to develop and integrate of advanced fibrous materials and multifunctional fibrous materials with enhanced properties in electronic devices. Wearable electronics fabricated on lightweight and flexible substrate are widely believed to have great potential for portable and self-chargeable devices. Several promising applications, for example e-skin, smartwatches, and bracelets, have been successfully achieved for the replacement of conventional electronic gadgets. Lightweight and wearable power supply modules with high energy storage performance are desirable for wearable technology. One strategy is to directly integrate a conventional rechargeable energy storage device, such as a battery or a supercapacitor (SC), into fabrics. Also, nano-chemistry is an emerging sub discipline of the chemical and materials sciences that deals with the development of methods for synthesizing nano scale bits of a desired material and with scientific investigations of the nano material obtained. Nano fibrous materials have numerous possible commercial and technological applications including use in electronic. In the last few decades, there has been significant progress in nanostructures with nanoscale and molecular scale properties that can satisfy the demands of the 21st century, for example, carbon nanotubes, inorganic semiconducting and metallic nanotubes/wires, conjugated polymer nanofibers/tubes, etc. These nanostructures have a deep impact on both fundamental research and potential applications in nanoelectronics or molecular electronics, nano devices and systems, nanocomposite materials, bio-nanotechnology and medicine.