Smart textiles
Smart textile is a term used to describe a whole group of textiles that have built-in triggers by different advanced methods (chemically, temperature variations, electroactive polymer) and manufacturing techniques in fibre, yarns and fabrics have been a driving force the last 20 years to make innovative products and product applications that fulfil customers
Advances in the polymer (biopolymer)and fibre science and the manufacturing technologies of fibres, yarns, and fabrics have been the driving force behind the development of smart textiles and innovative products that come up to customer expectations. Many of these applications today now find use mostly outside the regular textile sector. Therefore, producers of clothes, fibre, yarn, and fabrics have pushed the boundaries further ahead by developing newer materials. And are constantly meeting market demands able to push new directions within the traditional textile sector, and applications outside the textile industry. See Shape-memory material
Smart textiles grouped into three categories
- Active smart textiles can sense the stimuli from the environment and also react to these stimuli.
- passive smart textiles can only sense the environmental conditions or stimuli
- brilliant textiles can sense and react to the environmental conditions in such a way that their reaction is an adaptation to the environment
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Recommended Nanotechnology in The Fashion Industry Series
- Introduction to nanotechnology in the fashion industry part One
- Nanotechnology in the fashion industry part two
- How to manufacture nanotechnology textiles? part three