About this Research Topic
The field of smart wearable electronic textiles is rapidly expanding, with applications spanning defense, space, medical, healthcare, and fashion. These textiles, equipped with devices such as displays, sensors, and aesthetic enhancers, offer benefits such as continuous health monitoring, immediate first-aid provision, and fashion adaptability. However, for these textiles to operate continuously and effectively, they require on-board energy storage and delivery systems that offer suitable energy and power densities, flexibility, biocompatibility, durability, and reliability. Despite the progress in this field, there are still gaps in knowledge and ongoing debates about the biocompatibility, sustainability, durability, and recyclability of the electronic components involved in these textiles.
This research topic aims to showcase the latest developments and advancements in the area of smart wearable electronic textiles from research groups worldwide. The focus is on the development of wearable electronic yarns and fabrics, devices such as electronic chips, sensor's memories, power sources, and their seamless integration. The topic also aims to address issues related to degradation and its mitigation, prototype and large-scale fabrication of smart wearable electronic textiles, and the design, development, integration, fabrication, functioning, and human-textile interfacing.
To gather further insights into the development, application, and limitations of smart wearable electronic textiles, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Material level developments in energy storage systems such as batteries and supercapacitors for smart wearable electronic textiles
• Design, development, and fabrication of various components such as display units, sensors, memories, aesthetic enhancers
• Design and fabrication of smart wearable electronic textile prototypes
• Scale-up of the fabrication of these textiles for industries
• Novel applications of smart wearable electronic textiles
• Software applications for desktop computers and mobile devices and for human-textile interfacing
• Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence in smart wearable electronic textiles
• Biocompatibility, reliability, durability, and recyclability of various components
• Fundamental aspects in the design, development, fabrication, and function of smart wearable electronic textiles
• Any other aspects relevant to the smart wearable electronic textiles.
This research topic aims to showcase the latest developments and advancements in the area of smart wearable electronic textiles from research groups worldwide. The focus is on the development of wearable electronic yarns and fabrics, devices such as electronic chips, sensor's memories, power sources, and their seamless integration. The topic also aims to address issues related to degradation and its mitigation, prototype and large-scale fabrication of smart wearable electronic textiles, and the design, development, integration, fabrication, functioning, and human-textile interfacing.
To gather further insights into the development, application, and limitations of smart wearable electronic textiles, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Material level developments in energy storage systems such as batteries and supercapacitors for smart wearable electronic textiles
• Design, development, and fabrication of various components such as display units, sensors, memories, aesthetic enhancers
• Design and fabrication of smart wearable electronic textile prototypes
• Scale-up of the fabrication of these textiles for industries
• Novel applications of smart wearable electronic textiles
• Software applications for desktop computers and mobile devices and for human-textile interfacing
• Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence in smart wearable electronic textiles
• Biocompatibility, reliability, durability, and recyclability of various components
• Fundamental aspects in the design, development, fabrication, and function of smart wearable electronic textiles
• Any other aspects relevant to the smart wearable electronic textiles.
Keywords: Wearable Electronics, Smart Textiles, Electronic Textiles, Batteries, Supercapacitors, Wearable Electronic Yarns and Fabrics, Human-textile interface
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