Innovation in technical textiles

Anne Perwuelz, Christine Campagne, Xianyi Zeng, François Bordes, Fabien Salaun, Christine Campagne, Usha Massika, Jean-Louis Petiniot

• To define processes for the innovative functionalization of textiles, on the bases of research topics of the GEMTEX research laboratory: Nano-composites, chemical and physical grafting, microencapsulation…
• To define the notions of textile comfort, the principles of thermal and tactile comfort (textile texture), evaluation methods: physical and sensorial evaluation.

Skills: Knowledge of main textile processes allowing to bring a new property to the textiles.

Basic textile knowledge - Notions on polymers - Statistics

• Textile comfort: basic notions - Thermal comfort: physical and experimental models - Tactile comfort : physical models - Objective evaluation: physical measurements of contact - Sensorial evaluation in the textile industry.
• Functionalization processes: introduction: principles of functionalization - Traditional dry filling processes: products, tests, processes - Innovations in dyeing and printing - Environmentally-friendly textile processes - Grafting - Plasma treatments - Microencapsulation - Manufacturing of conductive fibres.
• Practical work : fabric functionnalization with different process

lessons and practical work

Written exam, written report and/or oral presentation

T.L.Vigo, “Textile processing and properties”, Elsevier, 1994

English