E-textiles Network

电子纺织网

• 批准号: EP/R031738/1
• 负责人: Stephen Beeby
• 金额: $ 16.71万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR031738%2F1
• 关键词: textiles; Network

The UK's textiles and clothing industry makes a significant contribution to the economy employing over 130,000 individuals and is experiencing resurgence with production rising by 2.5% over the last two years to a value of £9.1 billion. E-textiles are an emerging and enabling technology with broad potential applications in many areas such as clothing, home furnishing, workwear, sports, medical, architecture and automotive. The e-textiles market is forecast to grow from $100 million to $5 billion by 2027. E-textiles can also be used in many other emerging areas such as wearable technologies and IoT. This proposal is to create an E-textiles Network community to bring academia, industry and end users together to identify research challenges and catalyst the collaboration to address these challenges. The e-textiles network will ensure widely dissemination and knowledge exchanges using variety of mechanisms. In particular, the annual two-day conference will bring the community together to disseminate the research findings and engage with industry and end users. While network will be co-ordinated by the University of Southampton, the priorities and activities will be driven by a steering board with balanced representation from a range of other universities, companies, end users and policy makers. The success of the proposed network will ensure the UK keeps its leading role in the innovation and manufacturing of e-textiles.

英国的纺织和服装行业为经济做出了重大贡献，雇用了超过 130,000 名员工，并且正在复苏，过去两年产量增长了 2.5%，产值达到 91 亿英镑。电子纺织品是一种新兴的使能技术，在服装、家居、工作服、运动、医疗、建筑和汽车等许多领域具有广泛的潜在应用。预计到 2027 年，电子纺织品市场将从 1 亿美元增长到 50 亿美元。电子纺织品还可以用于许多其他新兴领域，例如可穿戴技术和物联网。该提案旨在创建一个电子纺织品网络社区，将学术界、行业和最终用户聚集在一起，以确定研究挑战并促进合作以应对这些挑战。电子纺织品网络将利用各种机制确保广泛传播和知识交流。特别是，为期两天的年度会议将让社区聚集在一起传播研究成果并与行业和最终用户互动。虽然网络将由南安普顿大学协调，但优先事项和活动将由指导委员会驱动，该指导委员会由一系列其他大学、公司、最终用户和政策制定者组成的均衡代表。拟议网络的成功将确保英国在电子纺织品的创新和制造方面保持领先地位。