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Making large-scale, functional, electronic textiles

Large-area display textiles can be produced by weaving transparent conductive weft and luminescent warp fibres using an industrial rapier loom. The integration of interactive functionalities, such as a keyboard and power supply, with the display textile forms an electronic textile system that can serve as a communication tool.
  1. Xiang Shi

    1. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

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  2. Peining Chen

    1. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

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  3. Huisheng Peng

    1. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

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This is a summary of Shi, X. et al. Large-area display textiles integrated with functional systems. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03295-8 (2021).

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