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Molla Tadesse Abate1,2,3\*, Ada Ferri1 , Jinping Guan3 , Guoqiang Chen3 and Vincent Nierstrasz<sup>2</sup>

1 Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Torino, Italy

2 Textile Materials Technology, Department of Textile Technology, The Swedish School of Textiles, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden

3 College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

\*Address all correspondence to: molla.tadesse\_abate@hb.se; molla.abate@polito.it

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