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People are living longer and would like to take care of theirself by their own as long as possible. In order to do so they need appropriate support in form of for example "intelligent" medical textiles. Currently KOB is developing smart textiles with integrated sensors. Some examples of current development projects as well as ideas and opportunities for potential cooperation partners will be part of the presentation.

Dr.-Ing. Marcin Meyer simultaneusly studied biotechnology and biomedical engineering at Warsaw University of Technology, including a year at Munich University of Technology. He graduated in 2011 with excellent results and became PhD student with Prof. Dr. G. Cuniberti at Dresden University of Technology. In order to improve his stretchable electronics knowledge he then spent 8 months working with Prof. J. A. Rogers on various 'skin-like' wearable electronics projects at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, leading to his contribution to an article in Nature Materials. Between 2012 and 2014 Marcin designed from scratch, built, tested and patented the fully-functional mobile-based stretchable, wireless electronic sensor platform for wound monitoring. He defended his thesis in July 2015 and joined KOB group as Innovation Manager.

The KOB group has been developing special elastic textiles for medical use for over 110 years. KOB employs over 1200 people worldwide, exports into 56 countries and produces more than 240 million bandages per year. As a worldwide leading manufacturer KOB has production sites in Germany and India. The production of bandages and woven fabrics also includes the finishing and packaging process. As a privet label manufacturer KOB is delivering on the market the range of first-class tested source materials comprises bandages for compression, support and fixation as well as woven fabrics and carrier materials. KOB stands for top quality - managed in Germany