Textile Science Research Center (TSRC)

“Chemical Analysis of Polymeric Materials Using Infrared Spectroscopy”

Lecture will be held on November 2^nd, 2011 at 10AM at the Faculty of Textile Technology, lecture hall 301 (third floor), Prilaz baruna Filipovića 28a, Zagreb.

Second part will be the practical workshop organized at the premises of Textile Science Research Centre at Savska 16/9. Prof. Yang will be awailable for the questions/answers dealing with spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis or combustion calorimetry. FT-IR, TGA, DSC and MCC devices are awailable for the measurements during the workshop.

Workshop is open for all interested scientists/engineers, both from the academic and industrial sectors. For organisational reasons, we would kindly ask you to confirm your attendance with filling the Application form for one or both parts of the workshop ant its submition at the following e-mail address: zorana.kovacevic@ttf.hr

Materials for download:

1. Application form

2. Invitation flyer

3. Prof. C.Q.Yang curriculum vitae

By clicking on “Read more…” you will find Lecture outline for this seminar.

The president of the Management Board of Varteks, d.d., Zoran Košćec, and the president of the Management Board of Čateks, Damir Vitez, signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement between Varteks and Čateks in Varaždin today with the aim to link primary production and to establish partnership relations between the two companies for a joint appearance on the domestic and foreign market.

The strategic alliance between Varteks and Čateks represents a proactive measure aiming to protect indispensable jobs and to strengthen cooperation between the two largest textile companies in Croatia by using their own resources as fundamental cornerstones to create prerequisites for a competitive market appearance and public procurement procedures.

The integration of electronics into textiles is a burgeoning field of research that may soon enable smart fabrics and wearable electronics. Bringing this technology one step closer to fruition, Jin-Woo Han and Meyya Meyyappan at the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have developed a new flexible memory fabric woven together from interlocking strands of copper and copper-oxide wires. At each juncture, or stitch along the fabric, a nanoscale dab of platinum is placed between the fibers. This “sandwich structure” at each crossing forms a resistive memory circuit. Resistive memory has received much attention due to the simplicity of its design.

Imagine plugging a USB port into a sheet of paper, and turning it into a tablet computer. It might be a stretch, but ideas like this have researchers at North Carolina State University examining the use of conductive nanocoatings on simple textiles – like woven cotton or even a sheet of paper.

“Normally, conductive nanocoatings are applied to inorganic materials like silicon. If we can find a way to apply them to textiles – cheap, flexible materials with a contorted surface texture – it would represent a cost-effective approach and framework for improving current and future types of electronic devices,” says Dr. Jesse Jur, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science, and lead author of a paper describing the research.