Active garment materials

An adaptable garment material and method of producing such a material. The material may have a substrate and a plurality of shape memory polymer elements integrated therewith, or may be a mat of interwoven shape memory polymer elements. The shape memory elements adapt in the presence of an actuation...

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Main Authors Stanford, Jr, Thomas B, Williamson, Weldon S, Sherman, Elena, Chu, Andrew C
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.07.2011
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Summary:An adaptable garment material and method of producing such a material. The material may have a substrate and a plurality of shape memory polymer elements integrated therewith, or may be a mat of interwoven shape memory polymer elements. The shape memory elements adapt in the presence of an actuation trigger and exhibit different properties upon actuation.