Julianna Abel

Multifunctional yarns and fabrics are crucial to revolutionizing medical devices, rehabilitation equipment, and wearable technologies that provide life-saving and life-enhancing interventions. However, little is understood about the effect of material processing, yarn manufacturing, textile design, and system integration on multifunctional textile performance. Abel’s research aims to derive material and structural models, establish advanced manufacturing techniques, and develop innovative design processes to enable advancements in current applications while opening the door to applications not yet imagined.