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Micro fabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles
The Microflex project is a Framework program 7 EU funded project and was submitted to the FP7-NMP-2007-Large-1 call. The Microflex project is concerned with flexible materials in the form of high added value smart fabrics/textiles which are able to sense stimuli and react or adapt to them in a predetermined way. Microflex will exploit micro fabrication to produce, using custom printing process, active functions cost efficiently. We propose to develop fundamental micro fabrication production technologies for MEMS on fabrics/textiles using flagship demonstrator applications. This will result in a cheap, east to design, flexible, rapid way to manufacture multifunction smart textiles/garments for a large set of multi-sectorial applications.
Homepage: http://microflex.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Type: Normal Research Project
Research Group: Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Themes: Nanomaterials and Dielectrics, Novel Sensors, Systems Design
Dates: 1st November 2008 to 1st November 2012
Partners
- Josef Stefan Institute
- Deutsche Institute fur Textil und Fasrforschung Denkendorf
- OVD Bonfort
- Klopman International
- Insensor
- Paul Boye Technologies
- University of Magdeburg
- Institut Francais du Textile et de l'Habillement
- Elasta
- Ardeje
- Saati
- Leitat
Funding
- EU