@article{tabor_thompson_agcayazi_bozkurt_ghosh_2021, title={Melt-Extruded Sensory Fibers for Electronic Textiles}, volume={307}, ISSN={["1439-2054"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202100737}, DOI={10.1002/mame.202100737}, abstractNote={AbstractTextile‐based flexible sensors are key to the development of personal wearable electronic devices and systems for a wide range of applications including physiological monitoring, communication, and entertainment. Textiles, for their many desirable characteristics and use, offer a natural interface between electronics and the human body. A wide range of fabrication techniques have been explored for textile‐based sensors; however, most are not compatible or readily adaptable to textile manufacturing processes. Here, a practical and scalable method of producing textile‐based sensory fibers using a common manufacturing technique, melt extrusion, is proposed. An overview of the fabrication method as well as the mechanical and electrical properties of the fibers is presented. Subsequently, the fibers’ ability to sense changes in pressure is studied in detail using assembled fibers. Methods to improve the sensor performance by altering the geometry of the fiber assembly are also presented. As a proof‐of‐concept demonstration, the fibers are woven into a pressure‐sensing fabric mat consisting of 64 sensing elements. The woven substrate can detect the location and level of pressure, thereby illustrating the fibers' potential use as sensors in textile structures.}, number={3}, journal={MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Tabor, Jordan and Thompson, Brendan and Agcayazi, Talha and Bozkurt, Alper and Ghosh, Tushar K.}, year={2021}, month={Dec} }
 @article{tabor_agcayazi_fleming_thompson_kapoor_liu_lee_huang_bozkurt_ghosh_2021, title={Textile-Based Pressure Sensors for Monitoring Prosthetic-Socket Interfaces}, volume={21}, ISSN={["1558-1748"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3053434}, DOI={10.1109/JSEN.2021.3053434}, abstractNote={Amputees are prone to experiencing discomfort when wearing their prosthetic devices. As the amputee population grows this becomes a more prevalent and pressing concern. There is a need for new prosthetic technologies to construct more comfortable and well-fitted liners and sockets. One of the well-recognized impediments to the development of new prosthetic technology is the lack of practical inner socket sensors to monitor the inner socket environment (ISE), or the region between the residual limb and the socket. Here we present a capacitive pressure sensor fabricated through a simple, and scalable sewing process using commercially available conductive yarns and textile materials. This fully-textile sensor provides a soft, flexible, and comfortable sensing system for monitoring the ISE. We provide details of our low-power sensor system capable of high-speed data collection from up to four sensor arrays. Additionally, we demonstrate two custom set-ups to test and validate the textile-based sensors in a simulated prosthetic environment. Finally, we utilize the textile-based sensors to study the ISE of a bilateral transtibial amputee. Results indicate that the textile-based sensors provide a promising potential for seamlessly monitoring the ISE.}, number={7}, journal={IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL}, publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, author={Tabor, Jordan and Agcayazi, Talha and Fleming, Aaron and Thompson, Brendan and Kapoor, Ashish and Liu, Ming and Lee, Michael Y. and Huang, He and Bozkurt, Alper and Ghosh, Tushar K.}, year={2021}, month={Apr}, pages={9413–9422} }
 @misc{chatterjee_tabor_ghosh_2019, title={Electrically Conductive Coatings for Fiber-Based E-Textiles}, volume={7}, ISSN={["2079-6439"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.3390/fib7060051}, DOI={10.3390/fib7060051}, abstractNote={With the advent of wearable electronic devices in our daily lives, there is a need for soft, flexible, and conformable devices that can provide electronic capabilities without sacrificing comfort. Electronic textiles (e-textiles) combine electronic capabilities of devices such as sensors, actuators, energy harvesting and storage devices, and communication devices with the comfort and conformability of conventional textiles. An important method to fabricate such devices is by coating conventionally used fibers and yarns with electrically conductive materials to create flexible capacitors, resistors, transistors, batteries, and circuits. Textiles constitute an obvious choice for deployment of such flexible electronic components due to their inherent conformability, strength, and stability. Coating a layer of electrically conducting material onto the textile can impart electronic capabilities to the base material in a facile manner. Such a coating can be done at any of the hierarchical levels of the textile structure, i.e., at the fiber, yarn, or fabric level. This review focuses on various electrically conducting materials and methods used for coating e-textile devices, as well as the different configurations that can be obtained from such coatings, creating a smart textile-based system.}, number={6}, journal={FIBERS}, publisher={MDPI AG}, author={Chatterjee, Kony and Tabor, Jordan and Ghosh, Tushar K.}, year={2019}, month={Jun} }
 @article{tabor_wust_pourdeyhimi_2019, title={The role of staple fiber length on the performance of carded, hydroentangled nonwovens produced with polypropylene fibers}, volume={14}, ISSN={["1558-9250"]}, DOI={10.1177/1558925019870058}, abstractNote={ Carding is a common web-forming process used for staple fibers in the nonwovens industry. Staple fibers may be produced in many different lengths. However, the effect of staple fiber length on the nonwoven carding process and structure–property relationships of carded, hydroentangled nonwoven fabrics is not well understood. During this research, polypropylene fibers with lengths ranging from 2.54 to 15.24 cm were produced, carded, and bonded by hydroentangling. All fiber lengths used during this research were successfully carded. Fabrics were characterized via scanning electron microscopy analysis as well as basis weight, thickness, and solid volume fraction measurements. Fabric performance was evaluated with air permeability and burst strength testing. Data sets were statistically evaluated with one-way and two-way analysis of variance to determine whether fiber length significantly affected fabric structure and properties. In general, the fabrics’ solid volume fractions and burst strengths were not significantly affected by fiber length. However, air permeability of the samples did show significant change with fiber length. }, journal={JOURNAL OF ENGINEERED FIBERS AND FABRICS}, author={Tabor, Jordan and Wust, Carl and Pourdeyhimi, Behnam}, year={2019}, month={Aug} }