报告时间:2017年9月20日14:00

报告地点:松江纺织学院楼3004会议室

报告人及简介

潘宁:PhD

纺织与服装系，生物与农业环境系教授

美国加州大学-戴维斯分校

研究领域：纤维集合体的物理和机械性能、纤维增强复合材料结构力学、纤维集合体的传递性能、生物力学、纳米结构材料

学历：西北纺织工学院学士，东华大学硕，博士学位，麻省理工学院博士后

论文与著作: 有200多篇 SCI 收录文章，包括先进材料，先进能源材料，英国皇家学会会刊, 美国物理评论等重要期刊。论文被引次数超过8,000次, h指数47（谷歌学术检索）。

荣誉：Fellows - 美国物理学会 (APS) 2015; 美国机械工程学会(ASME) 2004;

英国皇家纺织学会 (TI) 1993；

2001～2001美国纤维学会主席

2010 捷克Polytechnic University of Liberec，荣誉博士

2005 美国 NASA Tech Brief Nano 50奖

2009 受邀并参加北京60周年国庆观礼

报告大纲:

Wearable technologies have attracted such escalating interests from both manufacturers and consumers that some experts predict they will be “as big as the smart phone”. Given the wide coverage by and extreme intimacy between the human body and clothing, the potential for wearable technologies indeed seems overwhelming.

For wearable technologies to gain success in today’s environment however, it is of critical importance to explore and understand the causes or reasons behind the seemingly eternity of our clothing form up to now, despite tremendous advances in both materials and fabrication, and previous failed attempts in transforming it. Textile scientists are destined for providing the guidance or answers in this regard.

This talk identifies and analyzes the major technical and non-technical issues, to explain how our current form of clothing satisfies simultaneously so many – some seemingly mutually exclusive and demanding – requirements, to have served us so well for so long; why any attempt to deviate from the vital requirements discussed here will inevitably cause severe deterioration of clothing performance and deter its consumer acceptance, and finally why searching for a new form of cloth is so difficult, if possible.

Wearable technologies are hence believed most likely to penetrate first into the markets, as is, where performance and added functionality are critical such as in the military, sports, medical fields, and under extreme conditions, e.g. firefighting and polar explorers. Various other applications will only become integrated into everyday clothing after the technical and business issues discussed are resolved and proven.