Ashleigh Naysmith

About

My passion is in the application of environmentally friendly materials, and the development and use of them in a sustainable manner. I am fascinated by behavioural science, design thinking within research and how this can add a new perspective to the way we create.

The focus of my research is the development of low-cost and environmentally friendly electronic textiles (e-textiles) for applications in thermoregulation.

In this project, we are optimising conductive nanomaterials to develop a functionalised e-textile with sensing and energy harvesting properties.

We are evaluating different plant fibres as the textile substrate and will be using application methods with low-environmental impact.

The aspiration is to develop an eco-friendly e-textile with a scalable method so that the thermoregulation technology can become more commonplace. The use of this technology can contribute to three core purposes:

- To increase sustainable behaviour in the general population
- To deliver comfort to those with hindered personal thermal management (e.g. dementia patients)
- To sustainably increase energy equality

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Publications (3)

• The effect of plasma pre-treatment on the electrical resistance of MXene (Ti3C2Tx) coated fabrics
  Materials Advances 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D4MA01248H
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• Development of conductive textile fabric using Plackett–Burman optimized green synthesized silver nanoparticles and in situ polymerized polypyrrole
  Ashleigh Naysmith, Naeem S. Mian, Sohel Rana
  Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews 2023 DOI: 10.1080/17518253.2022.2158690
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• Green Synthesised Silver Nanocomposite for Thermoregulating E-Textiles †
  Engineering Proceedings 2022 DOI: 10.3390/engproc2022015015
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