Functional textiles

Smart textiles is an exaggerated but often used term. Can textiles really be smart or intelligent Only in the sense that they react to changing conditions, for example temperature, light or moisture. This provides a greater effect than the well known protection function of textiles that leads to the term functional textiles. 

A response to these needs, giving the companies a wide range of teehnological solutions, eonsists of the multi-functionahty of these soft materials, that is to say, the integration of multiple functions. Iimovation in this area is wide open, switching toward technical and functional textiles and adaptive textiles (smart textiles). It is possible to view a vision of this development by consulting a special issue of Actualite Chimique 2012 [NEM 12]. 

WoUina, U., Heide, M., MuUer-Litz, W., Obenauf, D., Ash, J., 2003. Functional textiles in prevention of chronic wounds, healing and tissue engineering. In Eisner, P., Hatch, K., Wigger-Alberti, W. (Eds.), Textiles and the skin. Current Problems in Dermatology, 31. Karger, Basel, pp. 82—97. 

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An analysis of scientific articles and patents shows numerous possibilities of adding microencapsulated active ingredients into construction materials, such as cement, lime, concrete, mortar, artificial marble, sealants, paints and other coatings, and functionalized textiles. 

Plasma treatment for development of durable functional textiles via surface activation, deposition of active materials, and/or polymerization of coating onto the textile surface for various functionalities [1, 38, 41, 59, 72,117,152]. 

Pan, N., and Sun, G. (2011). Fibre protection (Chapter 3) Improved water, oil and soil protection (Chapter 4), in Functional Textiles for Improved Performance, Protection and Health, The Textile Institute, Woodhead, Cambridge, pp. 54-84. 

Muhlsteff, J., Such, O., 2004. Dry electrodes for monitoring of vital signs in functional textiles. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 3, l th September, San Francisco, USA, pp. 2212-2215. 

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In addition to familiar materials, microfibres made from different polymers offer innovative new functional textiles. Fibres or textiles finished to provide antimicrobial or temperature control properties also open new... 

About 10 % of the silicone production is used for apparel and technical textiles. In this field silicones are mainly used to functionalize textiles. The characteristic hydrophobicity of silicones was firstly utilised in the mid-1950s. The products used in this period were based on combinations of hydrogen siloxanes and OH-terminated dimethylsiloxane fluids. Catalyzed with metal compounds like tin laurate, these products lead to a crosslinked silicone film on the fiber surface. Compared to the previously used impregnating agents like paraffin waxes or stearylchromium compounds, the silicones provide a much better hydrophobicity and even rubbing fastness and wash resistance are improved dramatically. 

U Wollina, M Heide, W Muller-Litz, D Obenauf and J Ash, Functional textiles in prevention of chronic wounds . Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering Current Problems in Dermatology, 2003 31 82-97. 

Hudd, A., 2011. Revolutionising Functional Textile lYinting Using Inkjet Technology. Available at http //www.xennia.com/knowledgecentre/downloads.asp (accessed 08.11.12). 

One of crucial requirements on protective clothing is that, while not compromise the ultimate protection of wearer, they need to address the thermal burden caused by the metabolic heat and moisture produced by human body enclosed in the protective clothing ensembles. Various high performance materials and functional textile structures are incorporated into protective clothing to reduce these thermo-physiological burdens, and a few examples of such functional materials and textile structures are discussed in this section. 

Wollina, U., et al., 2003. Functional textiles in prevention of chronic wounds, wound healing and tissue engineering. Text. Skin 31, 82-97. 

J. Dyer, Functional Textiles for Improved Performance 8-Infrared Functional Textiles, Protection and Health, Woodhead Publishing A Series in Textiles, 2011, pp. 184—197. 

Carfagna, C., Persico, P., 2006. Functional textiles based on polymer composites. Macromolecular Symposia 245—246, 355—362. 

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