Using Graphene As Smart Clothing Will Subvert The Silicon Era

Nowadays, the environment of graphene industry is hot and impetuous, and the concept is mostly speculation.

Last year, graphene industry shares surged, and this year, the market overcame.

This shows us a serious lack of downstream applications, and there is still much room for industrialization.

Although graphene is used to make the fabric feel like a mosquito, it is a new application for graphene under the premise of other heavy applications.

Since 2010, physicists

At the moment when Professor Konstantin Novoselov won the Nobel prize in physics, graphene became a new material attracting worldwide attention.

Ren Zhengfei predicted that in the next 10 to 20 years, the age of graphene will subvert the silicon era.

Graphene is currently the thinnest, most intense, conductive and thermal conductive new nanomaterial, which is mainly used in fuel cells, flexible screens, automotive, aircraft and satellite manufacturing.

However, a company named Aika Ai Ai technology wants to apply graphene to the textile industry, aiming to build smarter.

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At present, the application of graphene is divided into two types: heavy application and light application. Heavy application requires a lot of capital investment and long cycle development, so as to fundamentally replace the traditional materials with graphene monolayer atoms, such as graphene in the field of batteries and semiconductor chips, but this kind of application is limited by the current technology and output can not be rapidly popularized, and most of them are still in the laboratory stage.

The light application of graphene is for civilian applications, which can be quickly realized and can bring higher cost performance to consumers, such as graphene heating and filtration.

Aika love home technology is chosen.

Applied to the field of textile industry, it attached importance to the good thermal conductivity of graphene. Chen Lijun, founder and CEO of Aika, told 36 krypton that the electrothermal conversion efficiency of graphene can reach 99%, which has absolute advantages compared with other materials. Secondly, the traditional resistance wire heating is prone to short-circuit ignition, unsafe water connection and human comfort.

And Aika loves home technology to embed graphene into the fiber structure. The twisting woven fabric can support 3.7V safe voltage, and can control the heating speed and temperature through APP, according to the situation.

As far as user experience is concerned, safety and comfort are improved.

Besides heating speed, its heating uniformity and heating efficiency are better than carbon fiber and resistance wire.

As a kind of graphene textile, its softness, no folding and washable properties are better.

There are two problems in doing so, the first is cost, the second is technology.

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

Chen Lijun told 36 krypton, Aika love home technology after research and development, 1 grams of graphene can be woven into 2630 square meters of cloth, so that the cost of spreading down is negligible.

In terms of technology, Aika love home technology and University of Manchester graphene Research Institute, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Changzhou Advanced Materials Research Institute, new materials and industrial technology Beijing Research Institute and other top institutions, and obtained more than 10 patents.

However, how to make graphene clothing smart? Chen Li Jun said that only a special group of people need to wear equipment, such as the elderly, outdoor special jobs.

He believes that the future smart clothing entry point is "fever", the essence of clothing is to keep out the cold, which is hard and rigid demand.

In addition to the deep integration of graphene and textiles, Aika love home technology has independently developed graphene textile sensors, which can be directly attached to cloth, combined with smart wearable, can collect and excavate human data, and carry out health management and intelligent services through the data.

By the end of 2015, a self-developed "graphene smart shawl with heating function" was developed by Aika AI family. It landed at the Jingdong public chip and ended up with 5 million 190 thousand of the amount. Nearly 6000 people took part in the activity.

This shawl is graphene as a heating carrier, temperature controlled by APP, 5V safe voltage supply, easy to use, safe and controllable.