E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application
Wearable devices are ideal for personalized electronic applications in several domains such as healthcare, entertainment, sports and military. Although wearable technology is a growing market, current wearable devices are predominantly battery powered accessory devices, whose form factors also precl...
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| author | Abiodun Komolafe Bahareh Zaghari Russel Torah Alex S. Weddell Hamideh Khanbareh Zois Michail Tsikriteas Mark Vousden Mahmoud Wagih Ulises Tronco Jurado Junjie Shi Sheng Yong Sasikumar Arumugam Yi Li Kai Yang Guillaume Savelli Neil M. White Steve Beeby |
| author_facet | Abiodun Komolafe Bahareh Zaghari Russel Torah Alex S. Weddell Hamideh Khanbareh Zois Michail Tsikriteas Mark Vousden Mahmoud Wagih Ulises Tronco Jurado Junjie Shi Sheng Yong Sasikumar Arumugam Yi Li Kai Yang Guillaume Savelli Neil M. White Steve Beeby |
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| description | Wearable devices are ideal for personalized electronic applications in several domains such as healthcare, entertainment, sports and military. Although wearable technology is a growing market, current wearable devices are predominantly battery powered accessory devices, whose form factors also preclude them from utilizing the large area of the human body for spatiotemporal sensing or energy harvesting from body movements. E-textiles provide an opportunity to expand on current wearables to enable such applications via the larger surface area offered by garments, but consumer devices have been few and far between because of the inherent challenges in replicating traditional manufacturing technologies (that have enabled these wearable accessories) on textiles. Also, the powering of e-textile devices with battery energy like in wearable accessories, has proven incompatible with textile requirements for flexibility and washing. Although current e-textile research has shown advances in materials, new processing techniques, and one-off e-textile prototype devices, the pathway to industry scale commercialization is still uncertain. This paper reports the progress on the current technologies enabling the fabrication of e-textile devices and their power supplies including textile-based energy harvesters, energy storage mechanisms, and wireless power transfer solutions. It identifies factors that limit the adoption of current reported fabrication processes and devices in the industry for mass-market commercialization. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ec30d98667941c883798000566b05682022-12-21T21:25:49ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019971529717910.1109/ACCESS.2021.30943039471836E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to ApplicationAbiodun Komolafe0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3618-2390Bahareh Zaghari1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5600-4671Russel Torah2Alex S. Weddell3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-5460Hamideh Khanbareh4Zois Michail Tsikriteas5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7279-8638Mark Vousden6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6552-5831Mahmoud Wagih7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7806-4333Ulises Tronco Jurado8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7992-5561Junjie Shi9https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9440-1902Sheng Yong10Sasikumar Arumugam11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7783-1799Yi Li12https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5801-3769Kai Yang13Guillaume Savelli14https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6516-6234Neil M. White15https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-6452Steve Beeby16https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-1759School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Structures Research Centre, University of Bath, Bath, U.K.Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Structures Research Centre, University of Bath, Bath, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.Département des Technologies des NanoMatériaux, CEA-Liten, Grenoble, FranceSchool of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.Wearable devices are ideal for personalized electronic applications in several domains such as healthcare, entertainment, sports and military. Although wearable technology is a growing market, current wearable devices are predominantly battery powered accessory devices, whose form factors also preclude them from utilizing the large area of the human body for spatiotemporal sensing or energy harvesting from body movements. E-textiles provide an opportunity to expand on current wearables to enable such applications via the larger surface area offered by garments, but consumer devices have been few and far between because of the inherent challenges in replicating traditional manufacturing technologies (that have enabled these wearable accessories) on textiles. Also, the powering of e-textile devices with battery energy like in wearable accessories, has proven incompatible with textile requirements for flexibility and washing. Although current e-textile research has shown advances in materials, new processing techniques, and one-off e-textile prototype devices, the pathway to industry scale commercialization is still uncertain. This paper reports the progress on the current technologies enabling the fabrication of e-textile devices and their power supplies including textile-based energy harvesters, energy storage mechanisms, and wireless power transfer solutions. It identifies factors that limit the adoption of current reported fabrication processes and devices in the industry for mass-market commercialization.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9471836/Wearablese-textile devicese-textile power sourcese-textile manufacturing and scalability |
| spellingShingle | Abiodun Komolafe Bahareh Zaghari Russel Torah Alex S. Weddell Hamideh Khanbareh Zois Michail Tsikriteas Mark Vousden Mahmoud Wagih Ulises Tronco Jurado Junjie Shi Sheng Yong Sasikumar Arumugam Yi Li Kai Yang Guillaume Savelli Neil M. White Steve Beeby E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application IEEE Access Wearables e-textile devices e-textile power sources e-textile manufacturing and scalability |
| title | E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application |
| title_full | E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application |
| title_fullStr | E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application |
| title_full_unstemmed | E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application |
| title_short | E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application |
| title_sort | e textile technology review x2013 from materials to application |
| topic | Wearables e-textile devices e-textile power sources e-textile manufacturing and scalability |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9471836/ |
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