Competency: Fabrication

student) 1. GOAL STATEMENT The goal of this project is to explore knowledge of direct writing biological patterns and constructs such as biomaterials, proteins, and mammalian cells onto textile substrates using a novel matrix-assisted pulsed-laser evaporation direct-write (MAPLE DW) technique. Through this work, we expect to gain understanding of direct writing biological patterns and constructs onto fabrics to eventually create biological or medical microdevices embedded in fabrics. Such intelligent textiles are expected to find wide acceptance in healthcare and military applications. Intelligent textiles, also known as smart fabrics, have increasingly attracted attention due to their potential to provide platforms for additional functionality that will impact next-generation military and commercial market applications. Recent advances in genetically engineered biological constructs, tissue engineering, and implantable bio-sensors show great potential, when integrated with textile products, for healthcare and military applications. Through such advances, bio-textiles have a dual purpose role as both bio-actuator and bio-sensor