Technical textiles play a crucial role in solving various challenges across different industries. These textiles are specifically designed to address societal and industrial issues by incorporating advanced features through functionalization and surface modification.
This month's selection looks at textiles in energy harvesting applications. In these applications, textiles can be used due to their flexibility, tunability and diversity, ranging from filaments, yarns to 2D or 3D structures of woven, non-woven or knitted fabrics.
Upwardly extending posts are well-known and commonly utilized in the construction of fences or as a form of collision protection. Specifically, in the case of collision protection, these posts are positioned on a surface within a building, such as a warehouse, or on a paved area like a parking lot.
