Smart Textiles for Healthcare and Sustainability

Abstract

At the forefront of the smart textile community, healthcare and sustainability are the two crucial objectives targeted by researchers. The development of such powerful devices has been driven by innovative fabrications of breathable, skin-conformable technologies through the use of functional and programmable materials and device structures. This Perspective focuses on the current smart textiles available in the research field, categorized into personalized healthcare, including diagnostics and therapeutics, and sustainability, including energy harvesting and conservationpersonalized thermoregulation. These categories are further broken down into their platform structural technologies and performances. Furthermore, we give a comprehensive overview and highlight a few examples of current studies. Finally, we provide an outlook on these technologies for future researchers to participate. We envision that the next generation of smart textiles will revolutionize wearable technology for healthcare and sustainability.

Emerging biotransduction strategies on soft interfaces for biosensing

“…wave, wrinkle, island-bridge, origami, textile, and crack), which allows for conformability, high electron/hole mobility, low impedance/resistance, high throughput, and satisfactory sensing performance. [24][25][26][27][28] For biomolecule detection, as biomolecules could not directly produce detectable signals, biosensors generally need an extra biotransducer to selectively recognize molecules and subsequently produce electrical or optical signals. Hence, it is necessary to summarize efficient biotransduction strategies for better soft biosensors.…”

3D Printing Technology for Smart Clothing: A Topic Review

“…The advantage of 3D printing is that it can be customized easily, which has great application prospects in orthopedic implants [ 86 ], auxiliary preoperative simulations [ 87 ], biological printing organs [ 88 ] and other applications in medical fields. In addition, 3D printing is also used in the manufacture of personalized medical devices, which makes the wearable medical devices have the best shape, size and mechanical properties [ 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 ].…”

V2O5 Nanowires-Coated Yarn-Based Temperature Sensor With Wireless Data Transfer for Smart Textiles

“…HE interactive textiles with soft electronic devices in fabric or textile form factor (generally termed as 'etextiles') are being explored to capture opportunities in several emerging applications such as internet of things (IoT), digital health monitoring, fashion industry etc. [1][2][3][4][5]. For example, smart textiles with sensing and therapeutic capabilities could sense vital health parameters such as temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat, and breath rate etc.…”