Functional Design of Textiles and Development of Cultural and Creative Products
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The integration of functional textiles with cultural and creative products requires not only aesthetic preservation but also intelligent thermal management and reliable electrothermal performance. Such requirements are increasingly relevant to flexible electronic systems and electromagnetic applications, where stable conductive pathways and thermal regulation are essential for device reliability. This study proposes an intelligent cultural scroll based on a Tang Dynasty Baoxianghua pattern by integrating graphene-based conductive textiles, topology-optimized microcircuit design, and fuzzy proportional– integral–derivative (PID) temperature control. The cultural pattern is first transformed into an optimized conductive topology to minimize temperature deviation while preserving its artistic characteristics. Graphene conductive ink is subsequently screen-printed onto textile substrates and encapsulated through a hot-pressing process to form flexible electrothermal circuits, followed by the integration of temperature sensing and adaptive closed-loop control. Experimental results demonstrate that the fabricated heating unit reaches 50 ◦C within 80 s under a safe 5 V supply, while topology optimization reduces the maximum surface temperature difference from 19.4 ◦C to 1.1 ◦C. After external thermal disturbances, the fuzzy PID controller restores the target temperature within 25 s, exhibiting excellent robustness and stability. The proposed strategy provides an effective approach for combining cultural design with intelligent electrothermal textiles and offers valuable insights for flexible electromagnetic devices, wearable electronic systems, and thermally regulated functional materials requiring uniform current distribution and reliable energy management.
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