Hydrogels are emerging as the most promising dressings due to their excellent
biocompatibility, extracellular matrix mimicking structure, and drug loading ability. However …

Three-dimensional (3D) woven and knitted spacer fabrics have emerged as significant
advancements in the field of technical textiles, driven by notable progress made by the …

A flexible and wearable thermoelectric generator (TEG) could enable the conversion of
human body heat into electrical power, which would help to realize a self-powered wearable …

Inspired by pomelo peel, this study proposes bioinspired foam composites, which are
prepared by one-step foaming and a combination of different fabric structures. The …

Poisson's ratio (PR) is defined as the negative ratio between the lateral strain and the
longitudinal strain of a material under tensile or compressive loading condition. Auxetic …

In order to solve the problems of poor mechanical properties and incapable reuse for single
cellular foam, this study proposed low-cost spring-like sandwich flexible foam composites …

Abstract 3D finite element (FE) analysis was conducted to investigate the mechanical
behaviour of a typical 3D spacer fabric structure under compression in terms of its structural …

The main content dealt with in the paper is to present a kind of weft-knitted spacer fabric with
high porosity. It is a kind of three-dimensional textile fabric with a sandwich structure that …

Three-dimensional spacer fabric is a type of one-piece sandwich structure consisting of two
outer layers and vertical and inclined spacer monofilaments. It behaves like a cushioning …

This part aims to investigate the effects of structural parameters and lamination on the impact
force attenuation properties of warp-knitted spacer fabrics developed for impact protectors. A …