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Electronic Textile Materials: Materials, Fabrication and Application

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2023) | Viewed by 2672

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Raúl Fernández-García

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Departament of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ESEIAAT, Colom 1, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
Interests: smart textile electronics; wearable sensors; textile electrodes; textile RFID; textile antenna sensors
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Dr. Ignacio Gil

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Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: smart textile electronics; wearable antennas; metamaterials; electromagnetic field exposure (SAR)
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The usual interface of human skin is textile, with more than 80% of our body continuously covered of textile. For this reason, electronic textile (e-textile) materials have been introduced as emerging concepts in order to enable humans’ garments to interact with technological anthropic surroundings. Those intelligent application textiles have been called e-garments or smart textiles, and they can potentially be used in many application areas, such as healthcare, sports, emergency and law enforcement work, electromagnetic hazardous environment work, military, space, casual daily clothes, and fashion.

This Special Issue aims to publish new and novel research work focusing on the latest advances in e-textile technologies. Major subtopics include materials and the fabrication and application of e-textiles. These can be considered in relation to design computational simulation, experimental characterization, modelling, reliability, and applications.

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Dr. Raúl Fernández-García
Dr. Ignacio Gil
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Keywords

  • textile materials
  • textile sensors
  • textile antenna
  • textile electrodes
  • textile energy harvesting
  • e-textile applications

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Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Fabrics as Large-Scale Detectors for Textile Personal Protective Equipment in Active Laser Safety
by Annett Gawlik, Uwe Brückner, Gabriele Schmidl, Volker Wagner, Wolfgang Paa and Jonathan Plentz
Materials 2023, 16(13), 4841; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16134841 - 5 Jul 2023
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Laser safety is starting to play an increasingly important role, especially when the laser is used as a tool. Passive laser safety systems quickly reach their limits and, in some cases, provide inadequate protection. To counteract this, various active systems have been developed. [...] Read more.
Laser safety is starting to play an increasingly important role, especially when the laser is used as a tool. Passive laser safety systems quickly reach their limits and, in some cases, provide inadequate protection. To counteract this, various active systems have been developed. Flexible and especially textile-protective materials pose a special challenge. The market still lacks personal protective equipment (PPE) for active laser safety. Covering these materials with solar cells as large-area optical detectors offers a promising possibility. In this work, an active laser protection fabric with amorphous silicon solar cells is presented as a large-scale sensor for continuous wave and pulsed lasers (down to ns). First, the fabric and the solar cells were examined separately for irradiation behavior and damage. Laser irradiation was performed at wavelengths of 245, 355, 532, and 808 nm. The solar cell sensors were then applied directly to the laser protection fabric. The damage and destruction behavior of the active laser protection system was investigated. The results show that the basic safety function of the solar cell is still preserved when the locally damaged or destroyed area is irradiated again. A simple automatic shutdown system was used to demonstrate active laser protection within 50 ms. Full article
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A Smart Chair to Monitor Sitting Posture by Capacitive Textile Sensors
by Marc Martínez-Estrada, Tiina Vuohijoki, Anja Poberznik, Asif Shaikh, Johanna Virkki, Ignacio Gil and Raúl Fernández-García
Materials 2023, 16(13), 4838; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16134838 - 5 Jul 2023
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In this paper, a smart office chair with movable textile sensors to monitor sitting position during the workday is presented. The system consists of a presence textile capacitive sensor with different levels of activation with a signal conditioning device. The proposed system was [...] Read more.
In this paper, a smart office chair with movable textile sensors to monitor sitting position during the workday is presented. The system consists of a presence textile capacitive sensor with different levels of activation with a signal conditioning device. The proposed system was integrated into an office chair to detect postures that could provoke musculoskeletal disorders or discomfort. The microcontroller measured the capacitance by means of a cycle count method and provided the position information in real time. The information could be analysed to set up warnings to prevent incorrect postures or the necessity to move. Five participants assumed a series of postures, and the results showed the workability of the proposed smart chair. The chair can be provided as a new tool for companies, hospitals, or other institutions to detect incorrect postures and monitor the postures of people with reduced mobility. This tool can optimise control procedures or prevent occupational risks. Full article
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Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide Improved by Silver Nanowires for Flexible, Semitransparent and Conductive Electrodes on Textile with High Temperature Stability
by Maximilian Lutz Hupfer, Annett Gawlik, Jan Dellith and Jonathan Plentz
Materials 2023, 16(11), 3961; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16113961 - 25 May 2023
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In order to facilitate the design freedom for the implementation of textile-integrated electronics, we seek flexible transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) that can withstand not only the mechanical stresses encountered during use but also the thermal stresses of post-treatment. The transparent conductive oxides (TCO) [...] Read more.
In order to facilitate the design freedom for the implementation of textile-integrated electronics, we seek flexible transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) that can withstand not only the mechanical stresses encountered during use but also the thermal stresses of post-treatment. The transparent conductive oxides (TCO) typically used for this purpose are rigid in comparison to the fibers or textiles they are intended to coat. In this paper, a TCO, specifically aluminum-doped zinc oxide (Al:ZnO), is combined with an underlying layer of silver nanowires (Ag-NW). This combination brings together the advantages of a closed, conductive Al:ZnO layer and a flexible Ag-NW layer, forming a TCE. The result is a transparency of 20–25% (within the 400–800 nm range) and a sheet resistance of 10 Ω/sq that remains almost unchanged, even after post-treatment at 180 °C. Full article
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