The Advanced Textiles Research Group, and other staff in the Nottingham School of Art and Design, have published a new research article focussed on the challenges in designing a robust electronic yarn suitable for wearable applications. The article details the challenges with certain E-yarn designs and explores how these limitations were overcome. Further, the work provides a detailed insight into how different braiding materials and parameters can affect the overall coverage of embedded components. The new E-yarn design was a key outcome of the ‘Production engineering research for the manufacture of novel electronically functional yarns for multifunctional smart textiles’ project and informed decisions regarding the automated production process of these E-yarns.
The article is entitled ‘Design considerations for the creation of electronic yarns for wearable health monitoring devices’ and was published in ‘The Design Journal’: The article is available here.
Manufacturing Electronic Yarns 