Abstract
Smart textiles based on actuator materials are of practical interest, but few types have been commercially exploited. The challenge for researchers has been to bring the concept out of the laboratory by working out how to build these smart materials on an industrial scale and permanently incorporate them into textiles. Smart textiles are considered as the next frontline for electronics. Recent developments in advance technologies have led to the appearance of wearable electronics by fabricating, miniaturizing and embedding flexible conductive materials into textiles. The combination of textiles and smart materials have contributed to the development of new capabilities in fabrics with the potential to change how athletes, patients, soldiers, first responders, and everyday consumers interact with their clothes and other textile products. Actuating textiles in particular, have the potential to provide a breakthrough to the area of smart textiles in many ways. The incorporation of actuating materials in to textiles is a striking approach as a small change in material anisotropy properties can be converted into significant performance enhancements, due to the densely interconnected structures. Herein, the most recent advances in smart materials based on actuating textiles are reviewed. The use of novel emerging twisted synthetic yarns, conducting polymers, hybrid carbon nanotube and spandex yarn actuators, as well as most of the cutting–edge polymeric actuators which are deployed as smart textiles are discussed.
Highlights
Smart textiles research represents an innovative model for integrating advanced engineering materials into textiles which will result in new discoveries
Generation thermally actuated materials are shape memory alloys (SMAs), that their original shape and they returned to the original shape after being deformed and exposed to originalThe shape and they returned to thefabrication original shape afterofbeing and exposed to heat
Research into Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) over the last decade has demonstrated that carbon nanotube (CNT) have the capability to act as an actuating material powered electrochemically, electro thermally, have the capability to act as an actuating material powered electrochemically, electro thermally, electrostatically and/or optically [16,51,75,76,77]
Summary
Smart textiles research represents an innovative model for integrating advanced engineering materials into textiles which will result in new discoveries. Active smart textiles are a group that can sense and react to stimuli from the environment. These materials may be used as sensors and actuators [1]. Very smart textiles are the third category that consists of a unit for recognizing, reasoning and actuating This type of textiles sense, react and adapt themselves to environmental conditions or stimuli, such as space suits and health monitoring systems [11]. Expand, or rotate themselves, due to the presence of an external stimulus, such as voltage, current, temperature, pressure and many more These materials can be divided into four major groups depending on their mode of actuation which are electric field, ion based, pneumatic and thermal actuation, and further into two major groups on whether volume or order change dominates [12]. This review further discusses fundamental actuation mechanisms in brief, material fabrication, properties and actuating materials already being trailed in textiles
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