Graphene applied to the textile field intends to create smart clothing

Since 2010, when physicists Andrei Heim and Konstantin Novoselov took up the Nobel Prize in physics, graphene has become a new material attracting worldwide attention. Ren Zhengfei predicted that in the next 10 to 20 years, the graphene era will overturn the silicon era.

Graphene is a new type of nanomaterial currently found to be the thinnest, most intense, and most conductive and thermally conductive. It is mainly used in fuel cells, flexible screens, and automobile, aircraft, and satellite manufacturing. However, a company called Aika Aijia Technology intends to apply graphene to the textile sector in order to create smarter apparel.

At present, the application of graphene is divided into heavy application and light application. The heavy application requires a large amount of capital input and a longer period of development, so as to fundamentally replace the traditional materials with graphene single-layer atom advantages, such as graphene in batteries and semiconductors. Applications in chips and other fields, but such applications are limited by the current technology and production can not be quickly popularized, mostly remain in the laboratory stage. The light application of graphene is a civilian-oriented application that can be quickly realized and can bring higher cost performance to consumers, such as graphene heating and filtration.

Aika loves science and technology to choose graphene to apply to the textile field is to emphasize the good thermal conductivity of graphene, Aika love home founder and CEO Chen Lijun told 36, because the graphene electric heat conversion efficiency up to 99%, and other Compared with hair materials, there are absolute advantages; secondly, the traditional resistance wire fever, prone to short-circuit fire, water inline unsafe, low human comfort and so on.

Aika loves technology to embed the graphene into the fiber structure. The cloth woven from the twisted wire can support 3.7V safe voltage, and can control the heating speed and temperature through the APP according to the situation. In terms of user experience, safety and comfort are improved. In addition to fast heat generation, it is superior to carbon fiber and resistance wire in terms of heat uniformity and heat efficiency. As a graphene fabric, the soft, non-folding and washable properties are even better.

There are two problems with this approach. The first is the cost, and the second is the process.

Although the price of graphene dropped sharply in 2015, it is still a luxury compared to other textile materials. If a wide range of applications are applied to clothing, the cost must be considered.

Chen Lijun told 36, Aika love family technology through research and development, 1 gram of graphene can weave into 2630 square meters of fabric, so the cost of the flat out is insignificant.

In terms of process, Aika loved technology cooperated with top institutions such as Graphene Research Institute of Manchester University, Changzhou Advanced Materials Research Institute of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing Research Institute of New Materials and Industrial Technology, and obtained more than 10 patents.

However, how to add graphene clothes to smart? Chen Lijun said that only special people have a need for wearing equipment, such as the elderly, outdoor special types of work and so on. He believes that in the future smart clothing entry point is "heating", the nature of clothes is to protect the cold, which is hard just needed.

In addition to the deep integration of graphene and textiles, Aika Love Technology also independently develops graphene textile sensors, which can be directly attached to fabrics, combined with smart wear, and can collect, dig, and pass data on human body. Conduct health management and intelligent services.

At the end of 2015, a “Graphene smart cape” with heat function developed by Aika loved ones landed in the crowds of Jingdong crowds, and ended up with a total of 5.19 million. Nearly 6,000 people participated in the event. This shawl with graphene as a heat carrier, temperature control through the APP, 5V safe voltage supply, easy to use, safe and controllable.

Aika Love Home Technology won the pre-A financing of RMB 10 million for Essence Securities and Bauhinia Angels in 2015. For the next step, Aika plans to use the graphene material modification, intelligent collection, big data, etc Change. As the production of graphene clothing has a very high technical requirement for garment companies, Chen Lijun predicts that it will take five years if the technology is transferred to civil heating clothing.

Nowadays, the big environment of the graphene industry is hot and impetuous, and the concept is mostly speculation. Graphene industry stocks soared last year, and this year it fell back due to oversupply in the market. This allows us to see a serious lack of downstream applications, there is still much room for industrial application. Although graphene is used to make fabrics feel a bit of a cannon to hit mosquitoes, it is a new application for graphene, even under the premise that other heavy applications are not yet formed.

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