Smart Nanotextiles Applications: A General Overview
in: Smart Nanotextiles: Wearable and Technical Applications, wiley, pp.3-85, 2021
- Publication Type: Book Chapter / Chapter Research Book
- Publication Date: 2021
- Doi Number: 10.1002/9781119654872.ch1
- Publisher: wiley
- Page Numbers: pp.3-85
- Keywords: applications, e-textiles, electronic textiles, intelligent textiles, nanotechnology, Smart nanotextiles, smart textiles, wearable
- Usak University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Smart nanotextiles form a novel group of materials that are utilized/can be utilized in an array of application areas, such as biomedicine (health monitoring, controlled drug release; wound care, and regenerative medicine), communication, sports, fashion, energy harvesting, protection, filtration, civil and geotechnical engineering, transportation, and so on, including wearable and technical fields. Whereas textiles provide a convenient platform for smart functionality, nanotechnology assures that the favorable characteristics of the textile structure are not impaired by the smart functioning components. Furthermore, based on superior characteristics of nanostructured components in comparison to macro materials and micromaterials, nanomaterials provide augmented smart functionality. Despite the fact that immense research efforts have been devoted to smart nanotextiles, most of them have not been yet transcend commercialization stage due to challenges comprising high cost, difficulty in large-scale production, low reliability, potential detrimental effects of nanomaterials for human health and the environment. If these issues can be addressed soundly, smart nanotextiles, as a member of smart nanomaterials, can be considered as the material of the future possessing the capability to improve people’s living standards immensely.