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Awards for students’ textile innovations

07/05/2014
Innovations aimed at the protective apparel and outdoor market were among winners at the 42nd International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland.

Students and researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University were awarded for a high-performance protective textile, developed from a 3D spacer fabric treated with impact-hardening polymers based on stress-responsive micro-gels. The treated fabric becomes rigid on impact, transmitting the impact force, and becoming flexible again after impact.

The university’s Institute of Textiles and Clothing, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel, also presented a light, washable, conductive material to heat targeted regions, for use in outdoor apparel and medical products.

The projects were among 11 from the university that picked up awards and which were handed out by Nicholas Yang, vice-president of the university, on May 5.

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