by Nazire Deniz Yilmaz (Editor)
Smart Nanotextiles Wearable and Technical Applications
This
groundbreaking book comprehensively reviews the utilization of smart
nanotextiles in various application areas by referring to requirements
specific to various application fields, sharing the findings of some of
the latest research efforts and state-of-art smart nanotextiles
technologies, as well as providing insights relating to challenges and
opportunities facing current and future smart nanotextiles.
This
book covers the emerging and exciting field of nanotextiles and their
many applications. Smart nanotextiles form a novel group of materials
that are utilized/can be utilized in an array of application areas, such
as biomedicine (health monitoring, controlled drug release; wound care,
and regenerative medicine), communication, sports, fashion, energy
harvesting, protection, filtration, civil and geotechnical engineering,
transportation, and so on, including wearable and technical fields.
Whereas
textiles provide a convenient platform for smart functionality,
nanotechnology assures that the favorable characteristics of the textile
structure are not impaired by the smart functioning components.
Furthermore, based on the superior characteristics of nanostructured
components in comparison to macromaterials and micromaterials,
nanomaterials provide augmented smart functionality. However, despite
the immense research efforts that have been devoted to smart
nanotextiles, most of them have not yet transcended the
commercialization stage due to high cost, difficulty in large-scale
production, low reliability, and potential detrimental effects of
nanomaterials on human health and the environment.
The
12 chapters comprising this book are all written by subject-matter
experts from around the world and discuss the next-generation products
along with their challenges and opportunities.
Audience
Researchers,
technologists, industrial engineers, and postgraduate students in the
fields of textiles, intelligent materials, electronics, sensors,
actuators, biomedicine, fashion, filtration, transportation, civil
engineering, environmental engineering, communication, sports
performance, and materials science, who have an interest in smart
materials, nanotechnology and wearables.
