Smart Textiles and Wearable Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

Smart textiles and wearable technology are set to greatly impact our everyday lives over the coming decades; developing from niche to mainstream applications. Textiles are ubiquitous in many applications, spanning fashion, furnishings, automotive, aerospace, military and medical applications.  Adding electronic functionality to textiles, either directly via electronic yarns or indirectly via printing or integration adds further value to the key textile qualities of comfort, protection and aesthetic.

The introduction of sensors into textiles, either individually or in arrays provides a huge opportunity for researchers to develop novel sensor devices, materials and fabrication methods.  As a consequence, other research opportunities are available for end users to make use of these novel instrumented fabrics to obtain previously unavailable sensor data.  However, there are still significant research challenges for this nascent technology; improvements to robustness, reliability, washability and manufacturability of both the e-textiles and the sensor devices and materials.  Improvements in these key areas as well as new applications for these sensor technologies are currently driving the research community.

To highlight some of the latest developments in this exciting and relevant field, we invite you to consider submitting a manuscript to our upcoming Special Issue “Smart Textiles and Wearable Sensors”. Both research papers and review articles will be considered. We welcome submissions spanning topics across smart textiles, sensory textiles, wearable sensors, interactive textiles and embedded intelligence for smart wearable devices.

Dr. Russel Torah
Dr. Kai Yang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.