WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
1:30PM – 4:30PM
Roger Avakian, PolyOne
Session Abstract
Wearable electronics are becoming science fact rather than science fiction. The advent of flexible circuitry, sensors, energy generation & storage and actuators is transforming the way we think of clothing and footwear. To name a few, many of these advancements are made possible by polymeric materials with unique properties such as piezo-electricity, thermal conductivity, electronic and semi-conductive properties. There are major advancements in the polymer science, processing and design with these remarkable materials. This session will explore the preparation, properties, opportunities and challenges that wearable electronics present.
1st Talk:
Wearable Electronics — Overview and Standards
Cherry Tom, IEEE Standards Association
2nd Talk:
VOLT Smart Yarns
Matthew Kolmes, Supreme Corporation
3rd Talk:
Production of "Z" Aligned Ultra-Sensitive, Flexible and Transparent Piezoelectric Nanocomposites
Dr. Mukerrem (Miko) Cakmak, Purdue University
4th Talk:
Materials Requirements for Stretchable Printed Electronics
Dr. David Rosenfeld, DuPont
5th Talk:
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Panel Discussion:
Wearable Electronics: Opportunities for Plastics
All speakers
Wearable Electronics — Overview and Standards
ABSTRACT
he new technology area of wearable electronics brings together the different worlds of materials scientists/engineers and electronics engineers. Of specific interest to ANTEC participants interested in wearables electronics, IEEE-SA has numerous related projects. Examples include sensors, body area networks, personal health and point of care medical device communications, nanoscale communications, brain machine interfaces, internet of things, 3D body processing, Radio Frequency measurements, human exposure and data privacy.
This talk will cover how a number of these and other projects relate to wearable electronics. In addition, it will include findings from a 2018 IEEE workshop on this topic including challenges and priorities for standardization and interoperability.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
CHERRY TOM
IEEE Standards Association
Cherry Tom is Emerging Technologies Intelligence Manager for the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). In her role, she is seeking to establish IEEE communities for standards and/or standards related projects. This involves collaboration with experts in IEEE-SA and other parts of IEEE as well as organizations outside of IEEE including corporations, universities, government agencies, trade associations, consortia and other standards development organizations. Among current topics of interest are Smart Materials (including etextiles), 3D printing, Brain Machine Interface, Big Data, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence as they relate to the future "digital citizen" in an "immersive city". Prior to joining IEEE, she worked for a large telecommunications company and a wireless startup where she managed standards and regulatory strategies. She also participated in US standards committees under ANSI and global standards developing organizations such as IEEE, ISO/IEC JTC1, and ITU.
VOLT Smart Yarns
ABSTRACT
We have made advances in our (IFAI 2017) Award Winning smart yarns and have created new versions of the yarns that expand what is possible in Wearable tech and smart fabrics. We will talk about the new yarns, possible applications, and what it takes to make a successful working prototype.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
MATTHEW KOLMES
Supreme Corporation
Matt Kolmes joined Supreme Corporation (the parent company of VOLT Smart Yarns) in September of 2007 and worked in Sales and as In-House Counsel before moving to Operations and R&D. Prior to 2007 Matt was a partner at Vassalle, Kolmes & Mueller, a civil litigation law firm in New York City.
Matt's passion is developing high strength/high tech composite yarns and products used in Industrial Safety, and in the Police, Motorcycle, and Sports markets and now creating VOLT smart yarns for Wearable Tech fabrics and products. Matt graduated from New York Law School with a J.D.
Production of "Z" Aligned Ultra-Sensitive, Flexible and Transparent Piezoelectric Nanocomposites
ABSTRACT
The unprecedented growth rate of "Internet of Things" (IoT) and its potential impacts on wearable and flexible electronics is creating an increasing demand for the development of lightweight, stretchable and transparent sensors in many diverse application areas ranging from personal health monitoring to human inspired electronic skin. In this work, we introduce a novel method to produce high performance, flexible and transparent piezoelectric pressure sensors where piezoelectric and graphitic nanoparticles are aligned together (in "Z" direction) in a polymer matrix under the external electric field. The developed materials can even sense the pressures as low as touch of a bird feather. Apart from its outstanding sensing properties, this method can also be scaled up with a continuous roll-to-roll (R2R) production line which is also designed and developed by our group.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
DR. MUKERREM (MIKO) CAKMAK
Texas at Dallas
Dr Mukerrem (Miko) Cakmak is the Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering & Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Technical University of Istanbul and MS and PhD in Polymer Engineering from University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Dr Cakmak was one of the founders of Polymer Engineering Department at University of Akron where he was named Harold A. Morton Chair and Distinguished Professor of Polymer Engineering. He recently was the founding director of the National Polymer Innovation Center where he developed roll to roll manufacturing lines for functional polymer films for a range of applications including membranes for batteries, biomedical devices such as artificial pancreas, slow drug release platforms, flexible transparent electrodes for flexible electronics and flexible sensors.
Dr. Cakmak's current research includes modeling and experimental studies on processing-structure property relationships in polymer films and moldings and polymer/metal/ceramic hybrid systems.
Materials Requirements for Stretchable Printed Electronics
ABSTRACT
"Wearable electronics" can refer to a very diverse range of devices. Glasses for VR, or fitness watches worn on the wrist for biometric monitoring. More recently, functional clothing for medical monitoring, compression shirts and sports bras for maximizing work out efficiencies, garment heaters, and even fashions that light, or vibrate. Rigid devices like watches are shaped once to conform to a body contour and rely on well known films and screen-printable pastes for flexible electronics. Integration into a soft garment requires materials that not only flex, but also stretch. Avoiding excessive design constraints and maintaining comfort, these materials must often tolerate high strains, typically in excess of 60%, and maintain functionality. They must also tolerate washing and drying. Here we will describe several approaches to materials sets that when properly integrated, achieve the required performance.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
DR. DAVID ROSENFELD
DuPont
Dr. H. David Rosenfeld has a BS in Physics from Millersville University and a PhD in Materials Science from University of Pennsylvania. Following post docs at DuPont, the Naval Research Laboratory and as technical marketing manager for DSM Engineering Plastic Products, he joined the DuPont Corporate Center for Analytical Science in 1998. He spent much of his career as a corporate resource for x-ray diffraction, spectroscopy and imaging. In 2015 he began work on front side silver pastes and is now in the Photovoltaics and Advanced Materials business, where he is a Technical Fellow with responsibility for materials development for wearable electronics.
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