By Smithers Rapra Technology
Silicone elastomers have a distinct blend of houses no longer came across with natural elastomers, comparable to balance over a truly vast temperature variety, solid electric homes and environmental resistance, no odor or style, excessive biocompatibility, low softness with out plasticisers, and excessive colourability and transparency. regardless of their really excessive price, silicone elastomers are being more and more used for functions the place sturdiness and defense in use are fairly very important corresponding to: car, electric and digital, household home equipment, nutrients processing, clinical units and child bottle teats. This convention goals to hide the complete diversity of silicone elastomer fabrics, together with extreme temperature vulcanised (HTV), room temperature vulcanised (RTV) and liquid silicone rubber (LSR). This prime occasion for the Silicone Elastomers will collect brands, processors, designers and researchers with a typical curiosity in silicone elastomer fabrics, functions and processing, to provide up to date info at the most recent advancements and supply considerable networking possibilities with a global peer team.
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Table 1 shows some important properties of silicone coatings. Silicone coating ++ ++ ++ + ++ +++ + ++ +++ +++ Recycling Processing Cold resistance Heat resistance Chemical resistance Flexibility Handling Cleanability Translucency Flammability Appearance Table 1: Important properties of silicone coatings. + Silicones can be coated onto textiles by different well-established methods. Depending on the type of fabric, the material to be coated and the nature of the silicone coating, a proper coating technique has to be applied.
Sensing jacket by the Philips Research Laboratories [3] (A) (B) Figure 2. (A) Upper limb kinesthetic garment and (B) Sensorized glove [5, 6] Figure 3. Applications and performances of the SWCNT strain sensor based wearable devices [7] Paper 7 - Wang Page 2 of 10 pages Silicone Elastomers 2012 27-28 March 2012 – Berlin, Germany Figure 4. Image of the zigzag cracks In the industrial field, more and more advanced and sophisticated smart textiles based products are being produced and exhibited by more and more newly founded companies.
The newly developed smart textiles are completely different from their earlier counterparts, where electronic components were attached onto clothing with conventional technologies and weakened comfortability become one of the most significant disadvantages, especially for the long term wearing. Some typical application fields of the smart textiles are healthcare, rehabilitation, and athletic sports [11, 12]. In the field of smart textiles, enhanced comfort or compatibility to human body are equally important to improved sensing performances of the sensors employed.