Hybrid microelectronic technology in textile techniques with the aim of realizing smart textiles

Hadjiev, Hristo; Rrahnev, Ivelin; Philippov, P.

doi:10.1109/isse.2015.7247966

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“…Today, the word design is more relevant to them than ever before, because smart textiles have a great future utilization in healthcare [1][2][3], medicine [4][5][6][7][8], transport [9,10], sports and leisure [11,12], safety and personal protective equipment [13], construction [14], interior design [15,16], agriculture [17], sensors and biosensors [18][19][20], etc. Materials creation is associated with combining their known properties with new functionality to ensure active interaction with the environment, i.e., ability to react and adapt to changes [21].…”

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Textile Materials Modified with Stimuli-Responsive Drug Carrier for Skin Topical and Transdermal Delivery

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Textile materials, as a suitable matrix for different active substances facilitating their gradual release, can have an important role in skin topical or transdermal therapy. Characterized by compositional and structural variety, those materials readily meet the requirements for applications in specific therapies. Aromatherapy, antimicrobial substances and painkillers, hormone therapy, psoriasis treatment, atopic dermatitis, melanoma, etc., are some of the areas where textiles can be used as carriers. There are versatile optional methods for loading the biologically active substances onto textile materials. The oldest ones are by exhaustion, spraying, and a pad-dry-cure method. Another widespread method is the microencapsulation. The modification of textile materials with stimuli-responsive polymers is a perspective route to obtaining new textiles of improved multifunctional properties and intelligent response. In recent years, research has focused on new structures such as dendrimers, polymer micelles, liposomes, polymer nanoparticles, and hydrogels. Numerous functional groups and the ability to encapsulate different substances define dendrimer molecules as promising carriers for drug delivery. Hydrogels are also high molecular hydrophilic structures that can be used to modify textile material. They absorb a large amount of water or biological fluids and can support the delivery of medicines. These characteristics correspond to one of the current trends in the development of materials used in transdermal therapy, namely production of intelligent materials, i.e., such that allow controlled concentration and time delivery of the active substance and simultaneous visualization of the process, which can only be achieved with appropriate and purposeful modification of the textile material.

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