Dual-Functional Polyurethane Sponge-Based Pressure Sensors Incorporating BZT/BTO, Polypyrrole, and Carbon Nanotubes with Energy Generation Capability

Nurhan Onar Camlibel received her Bachelor's degree in Textile Engineering from the Ege University, Turkey, in 2000, and pursued her Master's (2004) and PhD degrees (2009) in Textile Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. She completed part of her doctoral research at ENSAIT, France, and later conducted one-year post-doctoral research at University of Greater Manchester, Institute for Materials Research and Innovation (IMRI), UK. She is now a Professor at the Textile Engineering Department, Pamukkale University, Turkey. Her work in Textile Engineering has resulted in numerous publications, presentations, lecturers, and courses. Her research topics mainly include electromagnetic shielding, protective textiles, conductive polymers, nanoparticles, carbon nanotube, graphene, textile sensors, smart textiles, the sol–gel process, coatings, electrospinning, functional textiles, antibacterial textiles, self-cleaning textiles, flame retardancy, textile pretreatments, enzymes, and the textile finishing process.

Baljinder K. Kandola is a Professor of Material Fire Science, University of Greater Manchester. She received a PhD degree in Physical Chemistry. She has an established track record of attracting funding for collaborative and multidisciplinary research from EPSRC, Innovate UK, the EU, and industrial sources. She has published over 200 papers in various journals, conference proceedings, and chapters in a number of books on ‘Fire Retardancy of Materials’. She has been involved in scientific committees of many international meetings and the organisation of the European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials (FRPM). Her teaching disciplines include technical textiles, composites, advanced materials, nanomaterials for the environment, geotextiles, and research methods. Her research interests include high-performance materials, flammability, fire retardancy of textiles and composites, fire gas analysis, fire-retardant mechanisms and associated modelling, incorporation of reactive components or additives including nano and micro fillers into polymers by melt blending, by in situ polymerisation, or as surface treatments, the combustion behaviour of modified polymers, the effects of different treatments on residual mechanical properties of heat/fire-exposed composites, and development of a predictive mathematical model to establish a relationship between the amount of additives, fire performance of the composite, and its mechanical properties before and after fire/heat exposure.