Functional Textiles with Smart Properties: Their Fabrications and Sustainable Applications

摘要

Benefiting from inherent lightweight, flexibility, and good adaptability tohuman body, functional textiles are attracting tremendous attention to copewith wearable issues in sustainable applications around human beings.In this feature article, a comprehensive and thoughtful review is proposedregarding research activities of functional textiles with smart properties.Specifically, a brief exposition of highlighting the significance and risingdemands of novel textiles throughout the human society is begun. Next, asystematic review is provided about the fabrication of functional textiles from1D spinning, 2D modification, and 3D construction, their diverse functionalityas well as sustainable applications, showing a clear picture of evolved textilesto the readers. How to engineer the compositions, structures, and propertiesof functional textiles is elaborated to achieve different smart properties. Allthese tunable, upgraded, and versatile properties make the developed textileswell suited for extensive applications ranging from environmental monitoringor freshwater access to personal protection and wearable power supply.Finally, a simple summary and critical analysis is drawn, with emphasis onthe insight into remaining challenges and future directions. With worldwideefforts, advance and breakthrough in textile functionalization expounded inthis review will promote the revolution of smart textiles for intelligence era.