Rong Yin

The Purpose and Vision for the Engine is to develop a sustainable and regenerative textile circular economy rooted in diversity and equity, focused on training and workforce development and based on rapid translation to practice.

This project will understand the microbial communities associated with retting and investigate harvest timing of fiber hemp on end-use applications.

This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award will support fundamental research in the field of sustainable textile manufacturing for hemp fibers. This research program aims to develop sustainable, high-quality hemp yarns and textiles.

This project will establish a bast fiber processing facility for high-throughput quality analysis.

The objective of this proposal is to develop hemp fiber reinforced composites for motorcycle parts to substitute current glass fiber composites of similar construction and specifications.

The overarching goal of this project is to enable engineered manufacturing of sewn and embroidered e-textiles. It can be achieved by conducting sewability assessment of commercially available conductive yarns and providing optimal sewing parameters to ensure electrical performance and mechanical durability.

The proposed SCRIF project aims to create fundamental innovation in Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles) by designing, optimizing, and validating a new paradigm for embroidery-based Wearable Human-Machine Interaction Systems (WHMISs).

The global hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) products market is projected to grow from $4.5 billion in 2019 to $21 billion by 2028, increasing the supply of raw fiber that could be available for textiles as a sustainable raw material, but corresponding hemp fiber processes need to be established. Hemp plants are hardy, require minimal water or chemicals and diversify crops. However, efficient fiber separation is a current obstacle to producing textile-grade fibers. The US textile industry wants ���cottonized��� hemp, which requires converting long decorticated hemp strands to the right range of fiber bundle lengths, fineness and cleanliness to be processed on the short staple spinning equipment that dominates US textile manufacturing. Efficient and quantitative fiber grading measurements are also needed to bring the promise of textile hemp fiber to fruition. The goals of this project are to: (1) develop reproducible measurement standards for characterizing and grading hemp fibers for use in textiles, (2) develop hemp degumming processes that achieve optimal fiber separation for use in short staple spinning while overcoming sustainability and reproducibility issues with conventional approaches, and (3) correlate prototype yarn and fabric properties with the hemp grading standards and improved degumming processes. Project outcomes will include improved (bio-)chemical processes for hemp fiber extraction and standardizable grading methods that enable the reliable selection and conversion of raw industrial hemp fiber to high quality yarns and fabrics. Achieving these goals will support the textile community in immediate market and product development opportunities for apparel and other uses.

The objective of this project is to develop a high-performance hemp fabric with significant performance benefits so that military personnel������������������s mobility, maneuverability, survivability and performance in operations can be substantially improved. The major objective is to demonstrate the performance levels of hemp fabrics compared with the existing uniform fabrics. Hemp containing yarns and fabrics will be fabricated and tested.

The goal of this research is to develop and fabricate CBRN protective fabrics for Warfighters and implement simulation analysis for analyzing and comparing with real-time mechanical properties of CBRN protective fabric.