Frontiers in Advanced Smart Textiles
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2022) | Viewed by 3176
Special Issue Editors
2. Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 41 Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: smart textile; textile technologies; filtration; recycling
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Interests: environmental and medical usefulness of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers towards their application in controlled release of active agents; evaluation of polymer carrier biodegradability and release rate of active compounds immobilized in polymer carrier-like polymer films, textiles, microcapsules; ecotoxicological assessment of polymer degradation products and other chemical substances released into the environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Materials is dedicated to recently developed advanced smart textiles that are able to sense electrical, thermal, chemical, or magnetic stimuli, or stimuli of another environmental source, react to and adapt to them by an integration of functionalities. Such smart textiles have applications in almost every area of human activity, including in medicine, automotive and aeronautical industries, personal protection, sport, fashion, the environment, building and living, or energy.
This Special Issue focuses on recent progress in smart textiles, including, but not limited to, advanced and innovative fibers, yarns, fabrics, knitwear and nonwovens, textile composites, their structures, properties and performance, textile technologies, and processes.
Textile science today stands on a novel, unexplored, and fantasy-filled horizon. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to promote research in this area, discuss the industry and end-user demands, and, eventually, point to the potential applications of smart textiles. While covering a broad range of fundamental, experimental, and industrial topics, we would like to stimulate scientists around the globe to share their exciting and promising works.
It is our pleasure to invite researchers to support Materials (IF 3.623) in this initiative, by submitting new and ground-breaking original research papers. Review articles and short communications are also warmly welcomed.
Dr. Alena Opálková Šišková
Dr. Piotr Rychter
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- passive and active smart textiles
- healthcare and targeted delivery systems
- self-cleaning and antibacterial textiles
- personal protection
- remediation and filtration
- water harvesting and desalination
- colour/phase/shape changing
- textile sensors
- psychotextiles
- biomimetic
- energy harvesting
- packaging
- nanotextiles
- textile composites
- multifunctionality
- textile design
- technologies and processes
- recycling of textiles
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