Frontiers in Advanced Smart Textiles

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Materials is dedicated to recently developed advanced smart textiles that are able to sense electrical, thermal, chemical, or magnetic stimuli, or stimuli of another environmental source, react to and adapt to them by an integration of functionalities. Such smart textiles have applications in almost every area of human activity, including in medicine, automotive and aeronautical industries, personal protection, sport, fashion, the environment, building and living, or energy.

This Special Issue focuses on recent progress in smart textiles, including, but not limited to, advanced and innovative fibers, yarns, fabrics, knitwear and nonwovens, textile composites, their structures, properties and performance, textile technologies, and processes.

Textile science today stands on a novel, unexplored, and fantasy-filled horizon. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to promote research in this area, discuss the industry and end-user demands, and, eventually, point to the potential applications of smart textiles. While covering a broad range of fundamental, experimental, and industrial topics, we would like to stimulate scientists around the globe to share their exciting and promising works.

It is our pleasure to invite researchers to support Materials (IF 3.623) in this initiative, by submitting new and ground-breaking original research papers. Review articles and short communications are also warmly welcomed.

Dr. Alena Opálková Šišková
Dr. Piotr Rychter
Guest Editors

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