E-Lumi-Tex – Active Lighting by textile finishing
Researchers of the Niederrhein University have invented a method to produce electroluminescent textile surface by conventional printing methods. The invention describes the manufacture of a textile actively illuminating. The individual electrodes, the active luminescent layer and other additional layers are applied to any textile in various process steps. The flexible fabric illuminates by applying an
electrical current “from within” in different colours depending on the luminescent pigment. Through dyeing or printing of the textile additional colours can be produced. In contrast to the currently best available technology for producing electroluminescent textiles, the present method requires no metallic fibres or other conductive surfaces in the textile. The first electrode layer, as all others following are applied via traditional application methods on any fabric, if this was pre-treated accordingly depending on the material and density. Both conductive layers and the isolating di-electric layer altered into water-based polymers for the production of a prototype.
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