Surface initiated polymerisation for applications in materials science by Bocheng Zhu

“…There is a clear trend in the relationship between the peeling force and growth time of PMMA on the cotton fibre by ARGET ATRP, although the inter-sample reproducibility is not good.…”
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Smart garment fabrics to enable non-contact opto-physiological monitoring by Dmitry Iakovlev, Sijung Hu, Harnani Hassan, Vincent Dwyer, Roya Ashayer-Soltani, Chris Hunt, Jinsong Shen

“…The green and the red LEDs (525 and 660 nm) placed on a small cotton substrate were used to locally illuminate palm skin in a dual-wavelength iPPG setup, where the backscattered light is transmitted to a remote image sensor through the garment fabric. …”
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European Union support for sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa: aid flows and effectiveness by Andrew Cotton, B. Valfrey-Visser, P. van Maanen, Rebecca Scott

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Development of antimicrobial fabrics based on silver and copper nanoparticles by Norashikin Mat-Zain

“…MRSA proved harder to inactivate than both B. subtilis and E. coli under identical conditions. Antifungal activity was significantly affected by the types of nanoparticles employed. …”
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The influence of textiles' sensorial information on the perception and preference of sport clothing by Julia Wilfling

“…Participants evaluated the same textile swatches by using an adapted haptic protocol of the previously conducted study in three identical sessions. The trials of the female participants were scheduled across the menstrual cycle (menses, follicle, luteal phase). …”
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From textiles to humans: the role of textile moisture transfer properties on human physiological and perceptual responses by Margherita Raccuglia

“…Indeed, the findings showed that subsequent sensorial scores are prone to anchoring biases and that the bias consists in a systematically higher magnitude of sensation expressed, as compared to when reported a single time only. …”
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