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FUTURE
SHOCHED
PROJECT
1.Registration
Team
Advanced Functional Materials
Participant
Detelina Asenova, 47 years old,
student: business administration,
bachelor degree, UNWE – Sofia
Previous occupation professional dancer, actress
Contact
detelinaasenova@yahoo.com
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Slogan The best way to predict future is to create it Peter Drucker
2.Project Working title
How to avoid atmospheric humidity in your body and in your mobile devices?
Quantum dots can help you!
Abstract – When I was a child, I lived in Varna. This is a town near Black Sea. In the
winter the weather are cold and humidity. This combination is the worst for your body,
because the humidity penetrates through every material. I felt cold and uncomfortable all the
time. Today with the quantum dots and nanotech we can avoid this feeling. We can create
new thread coated with quantum dots and avoid the humidity.
I imagine I am an explorer in the tropic area. Every day has patter of rain, the humidity is very
high. My mobile devices suffer, they aren’t protected. We can create thin coating to protect
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mobile device from corrosion and every day patter of rain. This coating will be finely,
transparent, flexible to coat every little opening.
3. Explication
Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. This covers
both current work and concepts that are more advanced. In its original sense, 'nanotechnology'
refers to the projected ability to construct items from the bottom up, using techniques and
tools being developed today to make complete, high performance products.
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My offers are in the first generation products – passive nanostructures, coating; What is
passive nanostructures – The lotus effect refers to the very high water repellence superhydrophobicity - resulting in self-cleaning properties as exhibited by the leaves of the
lotus flower. Dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to a complex micro- and
nanoscopic architecture of the surface, which minimizes adhesion. Superhydrophobic and
self-cleaning properties can also easily be demonstrated in many other plants.
Computer graphic of a lotus leaf surface
4. Starting up detailed description
Nanomaterials include – fullerenes and nanoparticles
A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere,
ellipsoid, tube, and many other shapes. Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and
they resemble the balls used in football (soccer). Cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes
or buckytubes. Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of stacked
graphene sheets of linked hexagonal rings; but they may also contain pentagonal (or
sometimes heptagonal) rings.
Nanoparticles include quantum dots, nanostructures, colloidal gold, silver nanoparticles, iron
nanoparticles, platinum nanoparticles
For the purpose of this project are selected silver nanoparticles. Why the silver?!
Silver has long been valued as a precious metal, used in currency coins, to make ornaments,
jewelry, high-value tableware and utensils (hence the term silverware) and as an investment in
the forms of coins and bullion. Silver metal is used industrially in electrical contacts and
conductors, in mirrors and in catalysis of chemical reactions. Its compounds are used in
photographic film and dilute silver nitrate solutions and other silver compounds are used as
disinfectants and microbiocides (oligodynamic effect). While many medical antimicrobial
uses of silver have been supplanted by antibiotics, further research into clinical potential
continues. Also silver is one of the nine elements construct our body.
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Appendix 1 Silver nanoparticles
The clothes are made from a textile.A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting
of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced
by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands.
Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or pressing fibres together
Textiles can be made from many materials. These materials come from four main sources:
animal (wool, silk), plant (cotton, flax, jute), mineral (asbestos, glass fibre), and synthetic
(nylon, polyester, acrylic). In the past, all textiles were made from natural fibres, including
plant, animal, and mineral sources. The kind of textile specify the kind of fibres. Fibers are of
three types: natural fiber which consists of animal and plant fibers, and man made fiber which
consists of synthetic fibers and regenerated fibers. In the past, all textiles were made from
natural fibres, including plant, animal, and mineral sources. In the 20th century, these were
supplemented by artificial fibres made from petroleum. All synthetic textiles are used
primarily in the production of clothing. Polyester fibre is used in all types of clothing, either
alone or blended with fibres such as cotton. Synthetic textile type are many. I single out an
acrylic. It is a fibre used to imitate wools, including cashmere, and is often used in
replacement of them. The synthetic textile give us a certain advantage. It is comfortable and
light. This material does not crease, we can fold up clothes, put in our suitcase and after the
flight wear without ironing. Acrylic is lightweight, soft, and warm, with a wool-like feel. It
can also be made to mimic other fibers, such as cotton, when spun on short staple equipment.
For the first we make coat, jacket and different kind of topcoat.
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Appendix 2 How we get acrylic fibre
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Appendix 3 Acrylic materials
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5. Working in progress
The next step is coating with silver nanoparticles. It is two ways- to coat the fibre or to coat
the textile. I decide to coat the textile and to decrease the cost it is better to cut out the
overcoat and make it. The ready jacket is dipped in the silver nitrarte solution. The new
material jacket have to dry and it will have new qualities – anti-bacterial, anti-pollution and
the new jacket can stop the humidity to penetrate in the body. The new overcoat can protect
you not only from humidity, but also from bacteria and pollution in the big city.
Appendix 4 Silver Nitrate Solution
The silver nanoparticles make impenetrable continuous wall. The new jacket breath, but 80%
from humidity are avoided. After all the lining is put on coat to protect from allergy.
The new jacket can wash with sponge soaked with water or dry cleaning.
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Appendix 5 New jacket against humidity
After the tests, this kind of treatment the textile can applied to all type clothes ( natural and
synthetic). Also for bag, shoes, suitcase, etc.It will be helpful for boot to avoid the penetration
water in the leather and appearance of salt. The boots can not be damage.
Appendix 6 Other applies
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Coating for mobile devices (laptop, smartphone, tablet)
Now, I am ready to be explorer in Amazon rainforest, with my new coat avoiding humidity
and pattern of rain. But I have another problem. I have not coat for my mobile devices –
laptop, smart telephone, tablet - who will sufer in the rainforest, also from humidity. Portable
computers for military and industrial purpose are air-tighted and haven’t this problem.
Laptop, ultrabooks, notebooks, netbooks for civil society haven’t this high-level protection,
because of coasts.It will be better to protect them from corrosion, bacterial, pattern of rain.
How can we make? We can make also coating with silver nanoparticles for them. It is
possible to made a thin coating with silver nanoparticles. There are this kind of coating for
keyboard for ultrabooks . It is made from silicone and coats closely the keyboard. It protects
keyboard from spilling coffee, water; crumbs and other. It is dipped in silver nitrate solution
and it is become also antibacterial and anticorrosive. After we put it on the laptop keyboard.
Because is flexible the coat sticks on keyboard. He sticks very quickly penetrate inside of the
laptop and full every free space. It makes vacuum and our mobile device will be protected
from corrosion, patter of rain, bacteria. This kind of protection will prolong the time of using
of mobile devices and it is going to raise their effectiveness.
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Appendix 7 Jacket Silicone
Keyboard coating have to consistent with air cooling of laptop. For this reason sometimes this
kind of protection doesn’t work. Different type to protect is manipulated all elements from
computers in silver nitrate solution. They will coating with nanoparticles and assembled
computer will be protected from humidity and pollution. The second way can use to protect
other mobile device – PDA – smartphone and tablet – they are without keyboard. The display
of mobile devices can be protected by making stronger and stabilize. This stronger glass
coating rise hardness from 8 to 10 times against scratchs. Also the glass coating stand against
hard loading if the computer fall down. Improvement display will coat with silver
nanoparticles and our devices will protect from humidity and pollution. All changes will be
for better and develop quality of devices.
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Appendix 8 Example glass coating: Corning Gorilla Glass NBT
6. Beta-version
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