Smart Textiles for On-Body Wearable Electronics and Personalized Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

The combination of functional electronic components and traditional textiles gives birth to a revolutionary product, i.e., smart or intelligent textiles. In particular, by incorporating powering, sensing, and therapeutic capabilities into everyday clothing, a new kind of smart textiles with the special abilities of energy harvesting and self-powered sensing are popping up, which have attracted considerable research interest and enrich a wide range of application areas ranging from wearable power sources and personized healthcare to humanoid robotics and human–machine interfaces. At present, a lot of research works related to smart energy and sensing textiles have been reported on their potential working mechanism, material modification process, performance optimization and improvement scheme, system integration process, and versatile application fields. However, although the basic mechanism has been gradually explored, the working performance has been continuously improved, and the application has been deepened, its overall efficiency is far from meeting the real application needs, due to some key issues, such as conversion efficiency, power density, working stability, etc. This Special Issue focuses on smart textiles for on-body wearable electronics and personalized healthcare, aiming to push forward the developments of these research directions from both fundamental textile sciences and related practical engineering issues.

Dr. Kai Dong
Prof. Dr. Jun Chen
Guest Editors

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• smart textiles
• energy harvesting
• self-powered sensing
• personalized healthcare
• on-body electronics