Investigation on material variants and fabrication methods for microstrip textile antennas: A review based on conventional and novel concepts of weaving, knitting and embroidery by Rameesh Lakshan Bulathsinghala

“…The demand for wireless communication in smart textiles has been increasing progressively, and therefore textile antennas will create potential benefits for wireless applications. …”
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Correlation of Air Permeability to Other Breathability Parameters of Textiles by Karel Adámek, Antonin Havelka, Zdenek Kůs, Adnan Mazari

“…In the field of textile comfort of smart textiles, the breathability of the material is very important. …”
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PEDOT-Based Conducting Polymer Actuators by Faqi Hu, Yu Xue, Jingkun Xu, Baoyang Lu

“…To date, PEDOT-based actuators are available in the field of bionics, biomedicine, smart textiles, microactuators, and other functional applications. …”
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Fluorescent fiber-shaped aqueous zinc-ion batteries for bifunctional multicolor-emission/energy-storage textiles by Liu, Fan, Xu, Shuhong, Gong, Wenbin, Zhao, Kaitian, Wang, Zhimin, Luo, Jie, Li, Chunsheng, Sun, Yan, Xue, Pan, Wang, Chunlei, Wei, Lei, Li, Qingwen, Zhang, Qichong

“…Wearable smart textiles are natural carriers to enable imperceptible and highly permeable sensing and response to environmental conditions via the system integration of multiple functional fibers. …”
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Critical insight: Challenges and requirements of fibre electrodes for wearable electrochemical energy storage by Tebyetekerwa, Mike, Marriam, Ifra, Xu, Z, Yang, Shengyuan, Zhang, Hui, Zabihi, Fatemeh, Rajan, Jose, Peng, Shengjie, Zhu, Meifang, Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…This perspective seeks to provide some critical insights on the challenges facing the development and adoption of fibre (yarn)-based energy storage electrodes in possible future applications of smart textiles. Attention has been given to five major points, viz. the property requirements, the associated characterization techniques, the metrics of quantifying performance, the associated materials and the goals of innovation. …”
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Printed Graphene, Nanotubes and Silver Electrodes Comparison for Textile and Structural Electronics Applications by Agnieszka Tabaczyńska, Anna Dąbrowska, Marcin Słoma

“…Due to the appearance of smart textiles and wearable electronics, the need for electro-conductive textiles and electro-conductive paths on textiles has become clear. …”
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Flexing the Spectrum: Advancements and Prospects of Flexible Electrochromic Materials by Gulzat Nuroldayeva, Mannix P. Balanay

“…The application potential of flexible electrochromic materials for wearable devices, smart textiles, flexible displays, electronic paper, and implantable biomedical devices is enormous. …”
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An Overview of Hierarchical Design of Textile-Based Sensor in Wearable Electronics by Songmei Wu

“…Smart textiles have recently aroused tremendous interests over the world because of their broad applications in wearable electronics, such as human healthcare, human motion detection, and intelligent robotics. …”
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Recent developments in flexible photodetectors based on metal halide perovskite by Dandan Hao, Jun Zou, Jia Huang

“…Abstract Flexible photodetectors (FPDs) have been receiving increasing attention in recent years because of their potential applications in electronic eyes, bioinspired sensing, smart textiles, and wearable devices. Moreover, metal halide perovskites (MHPs) with outstanding optical and electrical properties, good mechanical flexibility, low‐cost and low‐temperature solution‐processed fabrication have become promising candidates as light harvesting materials in FPDs. …”
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International Conference on Intelligent Textiles & Mass Customisation – ITMC 2019 by Ivana Schwarz, Dragana Kopitar

“…The themes of the ITMC conference focus on smart textiles and mass personalization: advanced manufacturing, comfort, digital tools, design methodologies, connected composites, mass customization, e-textile and e-commerce, smart and functional textiles, education and training, funding opportunities, supply chain management and logistics, sustainable production and recycling.…”
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Recent progress in the fabrication and processing of triboelectric yarns by Qian Chen, Wasim Akram, Yuying Cao, Can Ge, Tong Lin, Jian Fang

“…By combining conventional textiles with TENGs, textile‐based TENGs (t‐TENGs) can be employed with wearable devices and smart textiles. The t‐TENGs with a yarn structure, triboelectric yarns, can be directly used to conduct energy conversion and be processed into other energy‐harvesting textile structures due to their lightweight, flexibility, and processability. …”
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Heat Transfer in Directional Water Transport Fabrics by Chao Zeng, Hongxia Wang, Hua Zhou, Tong Lin

“…This study may be useful for development of “smart” textiles for various applications.…”
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Electrospun Shape Memory Polymer Micro-/Nanofibers and Tailoring Their Roles for Biomedical Applications by Mohadeseh Zare, Pooya Davoodi, Seeram Ramakrishna

“…Shape memory polymers (SMPs) as a relatively new class of smart materials have gained increasing attention in academic research and industrial developments (e.g., biomedical engineering, aerospace, robotics, automotive industries, and smart textiles). SMPs can switch their shape, stiffness, size, and structure upon being exposed to external stimuli. …”
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One-step metallization of weft-knitted fabrics for wearable biaxial strain sensors by Chao-Yi Tai, Chun-Yu Lin, Tang-Chun Liu, Lu-Chiang Jia, Thomas Jones, Amin Abdolvand

“…Durability assessment qualifies that the as-metallized strain sensors are able to sustain their performance for over 5000 stretch/release cycles, demonstrating its potential applications in biaxial strain sensing and interactive smart textiles.…”
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Modeling of the Electrotransport Process in PP-Based and PLA-Based Composite Fibers Filled with Carbon Nanofibers by Olga Moskalyuk, Diana Vol‘nova, Ekaterina Tsobkallo

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Design and Analysis of a True Random Number Generator Based on GSR Signals for Body Sensor Networks by Carmen Camara, Honorio Martín, Pedro Peris-Lopez, Muawya Aldalaien

“…Today, medical equipment or general-purpose devices such as smart-watches or smart-textiles can acquire a person’s vital signs. …”
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Highly Conductive Carbon Nanotube-Thermoplastic Polyurethane Nanocomposite for Smart Clothing Applications and Beyond by Sandra Lepak-Kuc, Bartłomiej Podsiadły, Andrzej Skalski, Daniel Janczak, Małgorzata Jakubowska, Agnieszka Lekawa-Raus

“…However, taking into account their light-weight, high conductivity, flexibility and easiness of molding it may be expected that their potential applications are not limited to the smart textiles industry.…”
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Ultrastretchable and superior healable supercapacitors based on a double cross-linked hydrogel electrolyte by Huili Li, Tian Lv, Huanhuan Sun, Guiju Qian, Ning Li, Yao Yao, Tao Chen

“…Healable and stretchable energy storage devices are gaining interest for wearable electronics and smart textiles. Here the authors report a nanocomposite hydrogel with high stretchability, ionic conductivity, and healing capability for use in a supercapacitor that can stretch 900% after healing.…”
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Diffusion-Limited Processes in Hydrogels with Chosen Applications from Drug Delivery to Electronic Components by Filipp V. Lavrentev, Vladimir V. Shilovskikh, Varvara S. Alabusheva, Veronika Yu. Yurova, Anna A. Nikitina, Sviatlana A. Ulasevich, Ekaterina V. Skorb

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The effect of annealing on the microstructure of Cu-Al-Ni-Mn shape memory alloy microwires by Shukla, Keerti

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