The inscription “Made in China” does not give us many illusions about the high quality of the product that we often buy at a low price. But that could soon change. Chinese scientists have invented a fabric that can function as a smartphone. The high-tech fabric runs on energy from the sun and has the ability to turn your clothing into a smartphone, a map, and give the mute a chance to communicate better.
Smart textiles will also be able to monitor health.
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Researchers have been promising wearable technology for years. However, the manufacturing process has always proven to be very demanding to produce, but the proposed garment will be very susceptible to damage even during subsequent repairs.
Smart textiles from the perspective of researcher Daniela Moravcova
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Fudan University Chemical Engineering Professor Huisheng Peng on the site Research finds he says this is because: “traditional solid-state materials are not easily compatible with textiles because they struggle to resist the natural deformation that naturally occurs when fabrics wear and wash.”
Clothing of the future
A custom-made fabric that is the subject of a study published in a journal Natureis a combination of conductive and luminescent fibers with cotton and is powered by solar energy.
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“It’s a flexible, breathable and very durable material that can withstand everyday life,” says Professor Peng. Scientists were even able to weave a piece measuring about 6 meters by 25 cm. Wearable technologies.
The touch keyboard is also integrated into the fabric, so controlling the fabric through it shouldn’t be a problem. Modern textiles would then mean a revolution in communication, navigation, and healthcare. You can see how smart textiles work in this video.
According to studyfinds.com, he smart textiles was a huge success, it functioned as a navigation tool that could display an interactive map, the electronic fabric also sent and received messages via Bluetooth, withstood 1,000 cycles of bending, stretching, pressing, and retained its luster after 100 washing and drying cycles.
Clothing that cares about your health
E-textile platforms have been studied by researchers for some time, generating more and more information and data about people and their lifestyles. Based on these data, future research could focus on, for example, exploring new strategies for treating diseases, including the use of e-textiles as a tool for remote assistance.
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K. Canavan in his book Textil a Móda (Textiles and Fashion) In this context, he explains: “Smart fabrics can perceive different environmental conditions, even reacting automatically to the surroundings or to stimuli such as thermal, chemical or mechanical changes.” So it can be concluded that smart fabrics can inform us. A change in our health condition faster than we know with a delay.
The newly developed textile also has the potential to improve the safety of road cyclists, motorists and even members of the emergency services.
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“Policemen or paramedics can wear them even at night or in other difficult lighting conditions, so their safety will be increased. People who cannot speak can use smart textiles to communicate better by converting their brain waves into signals that are then displayed by the clothes,” explains Professor Peng.
We don’t know the full potential yet
But these are only the first swallows and according to sciencedirect.com we are still far from discovering the full potential of e-textile technology. The development of new flexible structures that will be sensitive to new electrical, chemical and biological variables is on the way.
According to Rita Paradiso, who works at a company researching smart clothing, they still need to work on the garment’s durability, flexibility, breathability, look and feel.