Presentation from Nottingham Trent University at the Centre for Defence Enterprise Marketplace held on 5 February 2015. For more info see: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mod-brings-businesses-together-for-innovative-defence-ideas

1. Advanced Textiles Research Group
“The market for electronic textiles is set for exponential growth”

2. Advanced Textiles Research Group
The Advanced Textiles Research Group at Nottingham Trent University
has developed the platform technology for the next generation of
electronic textiles.
The technology has a host of applications for the military that include
sensing, communications, RFID tagging, active camouflage and smart
composites.

3. Advanced Textiles Research Group
We take minute semi-conductor chips smaller than a pin head….

4. Advanced Textiles Research Group
…. and embed them within textile yarns.

5. Advanced Textiles Research Group
Electronic functionality is therefore incorporated into core of the
resultant fabric/garment/product

6. Advanced Textiles Research Group
The fabrics are machine washable and can be tumbled dried

7. Advanced Textiles Research Group
Dstl are funding a PhD student who is developing active camouflage.

8. Advanced Textiles Research Group
CDE are currently funding a project to incorporate temperature sensors into socks to
monitor the conditions that lead to non-freezing cold injury.

9. Advanced Textiles Research Group
Other CDE funding led to an EPSRC grant to the value of £2.8 million for collaborative
research with the University of Southampton to embed smaller components with greater
functionality.

10. Advanced Textiles Research Group
Professor Tilak Dias: “CDE funding has been an important factor in the development of our
technologies on the road to commercialisation and subsequent adoption by the military”

11. Advanced Textiles Research Group
END