Composite Fibers and Their Devices: From Preparations to Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Flexible electronic devices have recently attracted tremendous attention due to their facile interaction with the subject's body and long-term monitoring capabilities. In particular, stretchable conductive fibers have gained significant attention owing to their ability to be directly woven into or stitched onto textiles for the preparation of devices. These qualities provide better wear-ability and integrality to wearable devices.

This Special Issue on “Composite fibers and their devices: from Preparations to Applications” of the Coatings journal aims to assess the recent basic and advanced progress on composite fibers used in various applications.

The use of stretchable conductive fibers is currently implemented as various flexible sensors in almost every aspect of modern life, such as the physical, chemical, biological, and environmental status of the environments. In such a composite system, polymer matrix materials could introduce superior stretchability for the composite and enclose the functional nanoparticles as coatings, the functional elements covered on the fibers’ surface as coatings or enclosed into the polymer matrix could modify and/or increase the functionality of fibers. So, the matrix materials and sensing elements will enable the unique properties of composite fibers for the various applications, such as energy devices, optics, sensors, microelectronics, catalytic devices, etc.

The topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

• Synthesis of novel composite fibers;
• Preparation of fiber-based devices;
• Novel 1D functional composite;
• Textile devices;
• Novel fibers with functional properties, e.g., conductive, optical, catalytic, sensing;
• New trends for design composite fiber and their devices;
• Other flexible functional devices.

Prof. Dr. Zuoli He
Prof. Dr. Rike Yudianti
Prof. Dr. Xingtao Xu
Dr. Yiliang Wang
Guest Editors

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