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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 Groups: Electronic Systems and Devices Group, Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Themes: Nanomaterials and Dielectrics, Novel Sensors, Systems Design
Dates: 1st November 2008 to 1st November 2012

Keywords

• flexible electronics
• inkjet
• smart fabrics
• thick-film

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

Principal Investigators

• Professor Steve Beeby

Other Investigators

• Dr Russel N Torah
• Dr John Tudor