Fiber Computing - Technical paper describing a potential physical layer for wearable computing by using fibers. Authors: Ozan Cakmakci and others. - http://www.cellmatrix.com/entryway/products/pub/Cakmakci2001.pdf
Experimentally Determining the Internal Friction of Conductive Fibers - Technical paper about a research project aiming to develop and technique for determining the internal friction of conductive polymer fibers for applications in nano-electronics. Author: Mary Kutteruf. - http://www.seas.upenn.edu/ese/sunfest/pastProjects/Papers01/Kutteruf.pdf
The Workshop on Conductive Polymers - Original document from a 1985 workshop about the development hitherto of conducting polymers. Authors: Y. Okamoto and E. Pearce. - http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/pdf/DE87006299/DE87006299.pdf
Intelligent, Stimuli-Sensitive Fibers and Fabrics - Research article on the ongoing development of fibers from stimuli-sensitive polymers (SSP) which respond to environmental changes such as pH, temperature and electrlyte, using techniques involving wet-spinning of cross-linked SSP gels, and SSP gel coatin - http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/te/ntc/99/walsh/m98a16.html
Hybrid Polymer Nanolayers for Surface Modification of Fibers - Technical paper describing a project focused on the fabrication of hybrid polymer nanolayers on the surface of fibers in order to create multifunctional responsive or adaptive fibers for smart textiles. Authors: Igor Luzinov and others. - http://mse.clemson.edu/htm/research/ntc/M01-CL03.pdf
Novel Polymeric Optical Fibers, Amplifiers, and Lasers - National Textile Center publication of an ongoing project created to develop fluoropolymer based optical fibers (POF) which enable a reliable reception, routing and secured broadcasting of information, for use in smart textiles. Project leader: Johm Balla - http://www.ntcresearch.org/pdf-rpts/AnRp03/M01-CL01-A3.pdf
Energy Dissipation in Conductive Polymer Fiber Bundles - Scientific paper about the development of a mathematical model to support a physical experiment on energy dissipation from a vibrating beam of electrospun conductive polymer fibers. Author: Dorci Lee Torres-Velazquez. - http://www.ese.upenn.edu/~sunfest/pastProjects/Papers01/DorciLeeTorres.pdf
Incorporating Carbon Nanotubes into Polypropylene Fibers - Thesis about the creation of conductive fibers, utilizing carbon nanotubes and conventional melt spinning equipment and based on the theory that the scale and intrinsic high conductivity of carbon nanotubes will allow for the formation of a conductive net - http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/ncrc/acrobatfiles/thesis/erickson.pdf
Photoadaptive Fibers for Textile Materials - Short article about the development of a novel photoadaptive system for reversible changes upon exposure to light, for applications in polymers for textile fibers. Authors: Lewis Slaten and Roy Broughton. - http://www.auburn.edu/~slatebl/annual.htm
Intelligent Textiles Based on Environmentally Responsive Fibers - Scientific paper about the creation of environmentally responsive fibers from blends of polyethylene-co-vinyl acetate (EVA), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and carbon black (CB), for the development of textiles which will be able to measure and self-reg - http://www.ntcresearch.org/pdf-rpts/AnRp00/m00-c07.pdf
Electrical Properties of Conductive Polymers: PET - Nanocomposites' Fibres - Scientific paper about an investigation into the possibility of creating conductive fibers by chemical coating of polypropylene fibers with specific electrical and mechanical properties, with various conductive materials. From Autex Research Journal. Auth - http://www.autexrj.org/No1-2004/PDF/0081.pdf