Textile technology for soft robotic and autonomous garments

V Sanchez, CJ Walsh, RJ Wood - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Textiles have emerged as a promising class of materials for developing wearable robots that
move and feel like everyday clothing. Textiles represent a favorable material platform for …

[HTML][HTML] Smart textiles: A toolkit to fashion the future

RR Ruckdashel, D Venkataraman… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Smart textiles are adaptive materials that use established textile methods to integrate
multifunctionalities beyond apparels. Despite recent advancement, a significant gap exists …

Textiles in soft robots: Current progress and future trends

C Fu, Z Xia, C Hurren, A Nilghaz, X Wang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robotics have substantial benefits of safety, adaptability, and cost efficiency compared to
conventional rigid robotics. Textiles have applications in soft robotics either as an auxiliary …

[HTML][HTML] Textiles gain intelligence

P Gould - Materials today, 2003 - Elsevier
Advances in textile technology, computer engineering, and materials science are promoting
a new breed of functional fabrics. Fashion designers are adding wires, circuits, and optical …

Smart textiles for healthcare and sustainability

T Tat, G Chen, X Zhao, Y Zhou, J Xu, J Chen - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
At the forefront of the smart textile community, healthcare and sustainability are the two
crucial objectives targeted by researchers. The development of such powerful devices has …

Wearable actuators: An overview

Y Chen, Y Yang, M Li, E Chen, W Mu, R Fisher, R Yin - Textiles, 2021 - mdpi.com
The booming wearable market and recent advances in material science has led to the rapid
development of the various wearable sensors, actuators, and devices that can be worn …

Sew-free anisotropic textile composites for rapid design and manufacturing of soft wearable robots

F Connolly, DA Wagner, CJ Walsh, K Bertoldi - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Textiles are promising materials to realize the next generation of pneumatic soft robots as
they are lightweight, conformable, stretchable, and intrinsically anisotropic. Exploiting these …

Functional textiles with smart properties: their fabrications and sustainable applications

Y Zhang, X Xia, K Ma, G Xia, M Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Benefiting from inherent lightweight, flexibility, and good adaptability to human body,
functional textiles are attracting tremendous attention to cope with wearable issues in …

E-textile technology review–from materials to application

A Komolafe, B Zaghari, R Torah, AS Weddell… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable devices are ideal for personalized electronic applications in several domains such
as healthcare, entertainment, sports and military. Although wearable technology is a …

Review of textile-based wearable electronics: From the structure of the multi-level hierarchy textiles

J Chen, T He, Z Du, C Lee - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Textile electronics possess unique characteristics such as breathability, deformability, and
flexibility, making them ideal platforms for wearable devices that offer maximum comfort …