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French government to help fund new ‘glow yarns’ project

05/05/2016
Techtera, the innovation cluster for textiles and flexible materials in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, has claimed success in helping secure government funding for a research project called Efigy, with the name coming from the term ‘efficient luminous glow yarns’

The project, which will begin in the autumn of 2016 and run for three-and-a-half years, will aim to develop new yarns with photoluminescent, retroreflective and mechanochromic functionality.

Nine companies from the region, including retroreflective materials provider JRC Reflex, will take part in the project, which will aim to establish application areas for the new yarns, including in sports apparel.

Techtera said on announcing government funding of €1.5 million that products currently on the market have limitations in terms of the intensity of their luminescence, as well as in terms of the substrates they will work on. The new project will aim to overcome these difficulties, as well as examine new possibilities in mechanochromic luminescence, which refers to the colour of the reflective light changing depending on conditions.


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