Textile and Yarn for Chemical Sensing and Smart Wearable Devices

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical sensors are critical components of medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and industrial processes; innovations in their design are key for addressing challenges faced by our society, such as the need for accessible and affordable on-site testing, continuous and non-invasive health monitoring, and adapting of sensing capabilities to the recent revolution in data science. The adoption of new materials and new designs has been the fuel for advancing the field of chemical sensors. There is growing interest in textile and yarn as promising materials for the development of chemical sensors with diverse functionality and adaptability.

Yarn and textile have been cultivated by humans for thousands of years. The many years of engineering dedicated to developing techniques for the spinning of yarn and creation of fabrics gives this material a unique advantage. Yarn and textile are ubiquitous, inexpensive, are available in a variety of materials such as Nylon and cotton, can transport fluids without the need for a pump, have excellent mechanical properties in both dry and wet states, offer large surface areas for functionalization, and can be manipulated at large scale using existing industrial machinery (i.e., knitting and sewing machines). These properties offer unique opportunities for the integration of sensing components in yarn and textile and for developing wearable devices, complex fluidic designs, and inexpensive on-site testing platforms.

This Special Issue will publish a collection of manuscripts that describe the latest advances on the use of textile and yarn to fabricate chemical sensors and smart wearable devices. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Application of yarn and textile for development of microfluidic platforms
• Wearable devices with sensing components integrated in textile and yarn
• Methods of textile and yarn functionalization
• Wearable e-textile technologies
• Electrochemical analysis of textile and yarn
• Optical textile sensors
• Repurposing of ubiquitous techniques such as knitting and weaving for fabrication of advanced textile- and yarn-based sensors and microfluidics
• Affordable diagnostic devices made of yarn and textile
• Textiles with theranostic capabilities
• Immunoassays on yarn

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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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. Chemosensors is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2700 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.

• Thread-based microfluidics
• electrochemical sensor
• wearable devices
• textile
• fabric
• yarn
• thread
• sensor
• detection
• diagnostics
• medical testing