Section outline
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In order to turn standards textiles into smart textiles, functional materials are used. The main ones are
- Conductive Materials
- Responsive Materials
- Fiber Optics Materials
Important attention point for these functional materials is always that the resulting product must still have a handle that one expects from a textile product. -
Smart textiles are defined as textiles (in the shape of shirts, socks, shorts, belts, etc.) that can sense and react to environmental conditions or stimuli, from mechanical, thermal, magnetic, chemical, electrical, or other sources to provide functions such as health monitoring and activity tracking.
They are:
2. Active smart textiles, are those capable of sensing, reacting, and adapting to the environment or stimuli and integrate actuators and sensors
1. Passive Smart textile are materials to which a specific function is added by means of material, composition, construction, and/or finishing (e.g., by applying additives or coatings)
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