Using smart polymers in practice medical textiles

5 Using smart polymers in practice medical textiles 

Hu and disclosed a method to prepare deodorant fabrics which are capable of releasing deodorant agents at certain temperature. The smart fabric is made by coating polymeric hydrogel (N-substituted alkyl) acrylamide, such as N-isopropyl acrylamide on the textile surface. The hydrogel 

12 pH-sensitive PVApolyacrylic acid (PAA) hydrogel for wound healing monitoring. 

Some body-responsive deodorant hydrogel products are already available in the market though we do not know exactly what materials have been used because of commercial confidentiality. As far as we know, no deodorant fabric with body-responsive technology has been commercialized yet. For responsive deodorant fabrics, more issues such as soft handle and high stability of the products have to be taken into consideration. Another issue is how to best control the degree of hydration of the product in the open environment, which is affected by many factors. 

Smart surfaces with reversible wettability switching between superhydro-phobicity and superhydrophilicity are of great importance due to their numerous industrial applications such as in self-cleaning surfaces, microfluidic tools, tunable optical lenses and lab-on-chip systems. -  

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