New Challenges in Novel Smart Textiles
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 243
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Interests: flexible glasses for photonics; single-phase hybrid membranes for water treatment and artificial organs; multifunctional platforms for medicine and pharmacy (silica, titania, and SPIONs); nanostructured amorphous materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Throughout the past decades, the textile industry has achieved specialized competitive markets with high-tech products called smart textiles, high-performance textiles, or e-textiles. European, North America, and Asian governmental programs integrate textile roadmaps, and huge corporations are enthusiastic about smart textiles mastery. Keywords such as digitalization, electro mobility, energy storage, health, security, ecology, and infrastructure are cited in textile research and/or products already in the market.
Synthetic Lycra fiber (by DuPont, 1960s) and Gore-Tex membrane (by Wilbert and Robert Gore, in the late 1970s) were the first to add value to traditional fabrics. Today, smart textiles present a new challenge in a wide range of fields such as sport, artistic communities, medical, security and safety, energy, railway, automotive, and aerospace. Smart textiles are able to sense different external stimuli (which could be thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical, magnetic, optical, etc.) to respond and adapt their behavior to them in an intelligent way. By combining textiles with electronics (namely sensors, actuators, data processors, communication units, and energy supply) and/or micro-encapsulation, new smart textile materials able to interact with the environment and/or user are capable of simultaneously accomplishing a wide spectrum of functions. Moreover, smart textiles have some benefits such as non-invasive and continuous monitoring along with tailor-made opportunities.
From academic, military, and industrial research groups to the market, smart textiles cover a wide range. We invite you to share your experience on this challenging promising future.
Prof. M. Clara Gonçalves
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart textiles
- high-performance textiles
- e-textiles
- bactericidal
- digitalization
- energy storage
- health
- security
- ecology
