Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept that opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities, data transfer, individual environment control, and so on. Fashion articles will carry key pads for mobile phones and connections for personal music systems; specialist clothing will be able to monitor the vital life signs of new-born babies, record the performance of an athlete's muscles, and call a rescue team to victims of accidents in adverse weather conditions.
In this book, a team of international authors discuss the technical materials and processes that will facilitate all these things.
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978-0-8493-1786-6 (9780849317866)
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Introduction and overview; Processing wear; Wearable computing systems - electronic textiles; Multi-functional wearable electro-textiles; Electroactive fabrics and wearable man-machine interfaces; Nano-conductive fibres and their applications in textiles and apparel; Electroceramic fibres and composites for intelligent apparel applications; Power management and supply for wearable electronics; Integration of fibre optic sensors and sensing networks in textile structures; Wearable photonics based on integrative polymeric optical fibres; Communication apparel, optical fibre fabric display; Reactive and adoptive apparel; Data transfer for smart clothing; requirements and potential technologies.
