Symposium SM2-Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles

Fibers are one of the most fundamental material forms, made by nature or by humans. In particular, optical fibers now are widely used in multitude of applications, ranging from telecommunications to monitoring structural integrity of bridges. Interestingly, despite numerous complex technological applications of optical fibers, the fibers themselves are remarkably simple from the perspective of materials composition. While optical fibers have also been made from other glasses or polymers, silica glass remains the dominant material in producing optical fibers. Textile fibers have similar characteristics, where a fiber made of a single material, with a relatively simple structure is used to deliver mechanical strength or other useful function.

Integration of materials with disparate electrical, optical, thermal, or mechanical properties into a single fiber with complex architecture and diverse functionalities presents new opportunities for extending fiber applications in numerous fields. Advanced multifunctional fibers and textiles leverage the capabilities of traditional fiber fabrication, but aims at developing new fiber structures, functionalities, and applications that stem from altering the material composition of the fiber. In recent years, major breakthroughs were made which demonstrated fibers with novel optical, electronic, acoustic and cell interfacing properties, which enable new functionalities not usually associated with conventional fibers. Multimaterial fibers are also a new playground for the controllable study of fluid dynamics in confined space and over a wide range of length scales.

This symposium will focus on recent advances in this rapidly developing field. Oral presentations and posters presenting original work in, but not limited to, the following technical areas are invited.

• Novel fiber applications and structures
• Theory and modelling of advanced multifunctional fibers and textiles
• Study and utilization of fluid dynamics in multifunctional fibers
• Fibers with advanced electric, optoelectronic, acoustic or neural activities
• Nanoscale devices and effects in advanced multifunctional fibers

• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _0 (University of Central Florida, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _1 (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _2 (Clemson University, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _3 (Bilkent University, Turkey)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _4 (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _5 (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _6 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _7 (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _8 (Nanjing University, China)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _9 (Tufts University, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _10 (Fudan University, China)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _11 (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _12 (Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _13 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _14 (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• SM2_Advanced Multifunctional Fibers and Textiles _15 (North Carolina State University, USA)