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Advances in Smart Textiles

A special issue of Textiles (ISSN 2673-7248).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1095

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jun Chen

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Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: biosensors; bioelectronics; smart textiles
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Smart textiles can broadly refer to fibers, fabrics and garments that can sense and respond to external stimuli, such as temperature, humidity, light, pressure, and electronic magnetic fields, and others. With the continuous improvement of science and technology, the application of smart textiles in various fields has developed rapidly, including in medicine, electronics, national defense, construction, transportation, sports, protection and so on. As the functions of smart textiles become more diversified, the challenges that follow are increasing. How to improve the quality and safety of smart textiles is a dilemma to be solved in the textile industry.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest research on smart textiles in various fields, with the goal of developing practical smart textile technologies to promote the sustainable, long-term development of the textile industry.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to submit a manuscript related to smart textiles for this Special Issue. Remarkable contributions including research articles, communications and reviews from experts all over the world are welcome.

Dr. Jun Chen
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Textiles is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • smart textiles
  • wearable
  • bioelectronics
  • sensors
  • therapeutics
  • energy
  • bio-inspired
  • self-cleaning
  • actuators
  • design

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OLEDs on Down-Converting Fabric by Using a High Scalable Planarization Process and a Transparent Polymeric Electrode
by Carmela Tania Prontera, Marco Pugliese, Fabrizio Mariano, Daniela Taurino, Roberto Giannuzzi, Vitantonio Primiceri, Marco Esposito, Antonio Andretta, Giuseppe Gigli and Vincenzo Maiorano
Textiles 2024, 4(1), 91-103; https://doi.org/10.3390/textiles4010007 - 15 Feb 2024
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Textile-based electronics represents a key technology for the development of wearable devices. Light-emitting textiles based on OLED architecture are particularly promising due to their intrinsic flexibility and possibility to be fabricated on large areas using scalable processes. Fabric planarization is one of the [...] Read more.
Textile-based electronics represents a key technology for the development of wearable devices. Light-emitting textiles based on OLED architecture are particularly promising due to their intrinsic flexibility and possibility to be fabricated on large areas using scalable processes. Fabric planarization is one of the most critical issues in their fabrication. Here we report a fast, simple, and industrially scalable planarization method based on the transfer of surface morphological properties from silicon to fabric. A liquid resin is used as a planarization layer, and by exploiting the low roughness of a ‘guide substrate’ it is possible to replicate the smooth and uniform surface from the silicon to the planarization layer. The result is a fabric with a flat and homogeneous polymer layer on its surface, suitable for OLED fabrication. In particular, the effect of resin viscosity on the surface morphology was evaluated to obtain the best planarization layer. The best device shows high luminance and current efficiency values, even after 1000 bending cycles. We also explored the possibility of tuning the color emitted by the device by using a fluorescent fabric as a down-converting layer. Thanks to this approach, it is in principle possible to achieve white emission from a very simple device architecture. Full article
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