Coupled with the advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality, and soft robotics, wearable smart textiles have emerged as a unique platform for next-generation electronics. Nanofabrication of textiles with electroactive materials has significantly augmented wearable smart textile systems offering health monitoring, self-powered energy management, and portable sensing. The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbide and nitride called “MXene” has revolutionized material chemistry research due to its unique properties such as metallic conductivity, rich surface chemistry, tunable terminations, and excellent processability. These excellent properties of MXene-based materials have attracted huge attention of the research community. This review summarizes the current progress in MXene-based textile, fibers, yarns, fabrics, and composites for various applications. Initially, the unique surface chemistry and processing techniques of MXenes are discussed, followed by the preparation of MXene for textiles functionalization. Subsequently, different MXene–textile fabrication techniques, performance matrices, and textile functionalization approaches that are beneficial to enhance the compatibility between MXene and textiles have also been discussed. The current development of MXene–textiles in various fields such as smart thermotherapy, sensing, flexible energy-storage systems, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, etc. are delineated. Finally, the existing challenges within the field are presented, and the future opportunities of MXene enabled smart textiles research are elaborated.

Intelligent, highly conductive, robust, and flexible electronic textile embedded smart devices hold surging interest in the wearable personalized heating system or thermotherapy. However, designing of these structures with desirable thermotherapy...

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Wearable electronics offer incredible benefits in mobile healthcare monitoring, sensing, portable energy harvesting and storage, human-machine interactions, etc., due to the evolution of rigid electronics structure to flexible and stretchable devices. Lately, transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) are highly regarded as a group of thriving two-dimensional nanomaterials and extraordinary building blocks for emerging flexible electronics platforms because of their excellent electrical conductivity, enriched surface functionalities, and large surface area. This article reviews the most recent developments in MXene-enabled flexible electronics for wearable electronics. Several MXeneenabled electronic devices designed on a nanometric scale are highlighted by drawing attention to widely developed nonstructural attributes, including 3D configured devices, textile and planer substrates, bioinspired structures, and printed materials. Furthermore, the unique progress of these nanodevices is highlighted by representative applications in healthcare, energy, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, and humanoid control of machines. The emerging prospects of MXene nanomaterials as a key frontier in nextgeneration wearable electronics are envisioned and the design challenges of these electronic systems are also discussed, followed by proposed solutions.

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