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The New Class of Interactive Textile Structures The term “E-Textiles” or “Electronic Textiles” is being used to denote the class of structures that integrates electronics elements with textiles [6]. However, the term “ETextiles” doesn’t convey the “interactivity” that is key to the successful development and deployment of such structures. Moreover, the hallmark of sensors and sensor networks is the associated interactivity, which enables them to be pervasive and ubiquitous. Therefore, we propose the term “i-Textiles” to convey this “dynamic” or “interactive” nature of these new structures that goes beyond the passive incorporation of “electronic” elements into textile structures.
The construction was based on the observation that during fire, fewer amounts of toxic substances were at the ground level than at the level of the fireman’s mouth. pl 42 I. Kruci´nska et al. / New Textile Materials for Environmental Protection addition, a layer of fibres protected the lower air inlet. John Tyndall, in 1868 designed a mask which consisted of some layers of differentiated structure. A clay layer separated the first two layers of dry cotton fibres. Between the two next cotton fibre layers was inserted charcoal, and the last two cotton fibre layers were separated by a layer of wool fibres saturated with glycerine.
New Textile Materials for Environmental Protection 49 the amount of micro-organisms carrying by aerosol is evaluated by completing the test without the evaluated filtering materials. Based on the results obtained it is possible to calculate the filtering efficiency of micro-organisms by the materials tested. The filter performance was determined against the two types of micro-organisms: Escherichia coli type ATCC10536 and Staphylococcus aureus type ATCC6538. 4. Results and discussion The realisation of the experiment designed led to manufacturing the filtering materials presented in Figure 6.