Project Description

While flexible pressure and temperature sensors are relatively easy to realise, gas sensors are more challenging due to their more complex structure involving gas sensitive materials that must have access to the external environment. Particularly for gas sensors targeting smart textile applications, the challenge is significantly greater since the industrial weaving is a very abrasive process. The main target of TWIGS is  to design, fabricate and characterise a mechanically robust thin-film capacitive gas sensor platform compatible with industrial weaving processes. The targeted sensor platform is particularly interesting to develop textile integrated sensors arrays with each individual sensor functionalised with a different sensing material to perform complex sensing tasks. 

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