3D Printed Technical Textiles for Defence Exosuits: Custom Fabrics for Physiological Monitoring and Decontamination Applications

The objectives of this approved research proposal concern development of composites for custom technical textiles from the standpoint of solution processivity, 3D printing of textiles, customized textiles for defence exosuits using imprinted elements, and composite textiles for physiological monitoring with strategically embedded chemical and biological decontaminating fibers. It is anticipated that such layered custom fabric layers will have applications for personalized protective systems using innovative and lightweight protective textiles, with embedded IoT- based sensor technologies to afford rapid mitigation of chemical and biological threats at the interface of skin tissue barriers and sensitive organs, notably the eyes, skin, and lungs. In addition, this project will also afford development of textile with embedded microcapsules that could contain active agents for detoxification of chemical and biological warfare agents, as well for delivering therapeutics, or light emitters for photodynamic action. This project has Defence Material and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), Kanpur, as application partner for defence application.