• Reviews background to smart technology and goes on to cover a wide range of the material science and fiber science aspects of the technology

• Provides insight into the latest technological developments such as thermally sensitive fibers and fabrics, wearable electronic and photonic technologies, adaptive and responsive textile structures, biomedical applications, and more

• Contains contributions from a distinguished international panel of experts

• Covers many aspects of cutting edge research and development

Smart Fibres, Fabrics and Clothing starts with a review of the background to smart technology and goes on to cover a wide range of the material science and fiber science aspects of the technology including:

• Electrically active polymeric materials and the applications of nonionic polymer gel and elastomers for artificial muscles
• Thermally sensitive fibres and fabrics
• Cross-linked polyol fibrous substrates
• Stimuli-responsive interpenetrating polymer network hydrogel
• Permeation control through stimuli-responsive polymer membranes
• Optical fibre sensors, hollow fibre membranes for gas separation
• Integrating fibre-formed components into textile structures
• Wearable electronic and photonic technologies
• Adaptive and responsive textile structures (ARTS)
• And biomedical applications including the applications of scaffolds in tissue engineering

Smart Fibres, Fabrics and Clothing provides a guide to the fundamentals and latest developments in smart technology for textiles and clothing. The contributors represent a distinguished international panel of experts and the book covers many aspects of cutting edge research and development. It gives you insight into technological developments in the field valuable and fascinating.

Contents

1. Smart technology for textiles and clothing - An overview and review
   • Introduction
   • Development of smart technology for textiles and clothing
   • Outline of the book

2. Electrically active polymer materials: application of non-ionic polymer gel and elastomers for artificial muscles
   • Introduction
   • Polymer materials as actuators or artificial muscle
   • Peculiarity of polymer gel actuator
   • Triggers for actuating polymer gels
   • Electro-active polymer gels as artificial muscles
   • From electro-active polymer gel to electro-active elastomer with large deformation

3. Heat storage and thermo-regulated textiles and clothing
   • Development introduction
   • Basics of heat-storage materials
   • Manufacture of heat-storage and thermo-regulated textiles and clothing
   • Properties of heat-storage and thermo-regulated textiles and clothing application
   • Development trends

4. Thermally sensitive materials
   • Introduction
   • Thermal storage and thermal insulating fibres
   • Thermal insulation through polymeric coatings
   • Design of fabric assemblies

5. Cross-linked polyol fibrous substrates as multifunctional and multi-use intelligent materials
   • Introduction
   • Fibrous intelligent materials
   • Experimental
   • Results and discussion

6. Stimuli-responsive interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels composed of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(acrylic acid)
   • Introduction
   • Experimental
   • Results and discussion

7. Permeation control through stimuli-responsive polymer membrane prepared by plasma and radiation grafting techniques
   • Introduction
   • Experimental
   • Results and discussion

8. Mechanical properties of fibre Bragg gratings
   • Introduction
   • Fabric techniques
   • Mechanisms of FBG sensor fabrication
   • Mechanical properties
   • Influence of the UV irradiation on mechanical properties
   • Polymeric fibre

9. Optical responses of FBG sensors under deformations
   • Introduction
   • Optical methodology for FBG sensors
   • Optical responses under tension
   • Optical responses under torsion
   • Optical responses under lateral compression
   • Optical responses under bending

10. Smart textile composites integrated with fibre optic sensors
    • Introduction
    • Optical fibres and fibre optic sensors
    • Principal analysis of embedded fibre Bragg grating sensors
    • Simultaneous measurements of strain and temperature
    • Measurement effectiveness
    • Reliability of FBGs
    • Error of strain measurement due to deviation of position and direction
    • Distributed measurement systems

11. Hollow fibre membranes for gas separation
    • Historical overview of membranes for gas separation
    • Developments of membranes for industrial gas separation
    • Theories of permeation processes
    • Phase inversion and hollow fibre membrane
    • Future hollow fibre membranes and industrial gas separation

12. Embroidery and smart textiles
    • Introduction
    • Basics of embroidery technology
    • Embroidery for technical applications - tailored fibre placement
    • Embroidery technology used for medical textiles
    • Embroidered stamp - gag or innovation?

13. Adaptive and responsive textile structures (ARTS)
    • Introduction
    • Textiles in computing: the symbiotic relationship
    • The Georgia Tech Wearable MotherboardTM
    • GTWM: contributions and potential applications
    • Emergence of a new paradigm: harnessing the opportunity

14. Wearable technology for snow clothing
    • Introduction
    • Key issues and performance requirements
    • The prototype

15. Bio-processing for smart textiles and clothing
    • Introduction
    • Treatment of wool with enzymes
    • Treatment of of cotton with enzymes
    • Enzymatic modification of synthetic fibres
    • Spider silk
    • 'Intelligent fibres'

16. Tailor-made intelligent polymers for biomedical applications
    • Introduction
    • Fundamental aspects of shape memory materials
    • Concept of biodegradable shape memory polymers
    • Degradable thermoplastic elastomers having shape memory properties
    • Degradable polymer networks having shape memory properties

17. Textile scaffolds in tissue engineering
    • Introduction
    • Ideal scaffold system
    • Scaffold materials
    • Textile scaffolds

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