Integration of Conductive Materials with Textile Structures, an Overview

Tseghai, Granch Berhe; Malengier, Benny; Fante, Kinde Anlay; Nigusse, Abreha Bayrau Bayrau; Langenhove, Lieva Van

doi:10.3390/s20236910

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“…When sensors are worn or fitted to the body, they should not cause any discomfort to the body, and therefore require good biocompatibility, skin friendliness, and comfort. Mechanical sensors that use textile materials as substrates usually possess these characteristics [71]. TMSs can be sewn on the garment manually by attaching them to an elastic backing or by using a specially designed support frame.…”

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Textile-Based Mechanical Sensors: A Review

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Innovations related to textiles-based sensors have drawn great interest due to their outstanding merits of flexibility, comfort, low cost, and wearability. Textile-based sensors are often tied to certain parts of the human body to collect mechanical, physical, and chemical stimuli to identify and record human health and exercise. Until now, much research and review work has been carried out to summarize and promote the development of textile-based sensors. As a feature, we focus on textile-based mechanical sensors (TMSs), especially on their advantages and the way they achieve performance optimizations in this review. We first adopt a novel approach to introduce different kinds of TMSs by combining sensing mechanisms, textile structure, and novel fabricating strategies for implementing TMSs and focusing on critical performance criteria such as sensitivity, response range, response time, and stability. Next, we summarize their great advantages over other flexible sensors, and their potential applications in health monitoring, motion recognition, and human-machine interaction. Finally, we present the challenges and prospects to provide meaningful guidelines and directions for future research. The TMSs play an important role in promoting the development of the emerging Internet of Things, which can make health monitoring and everyday objects connect more smartly, conveniently, and comfortably efficiently in a wearable way in the coming years.

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Textile-Based Mechanical Sensors: A Review

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“…The concept of wearing cloth started with cultural evolution for the purpose of covering body parts. However, with time, textiles are now not only used for wearing purposes but have multiple value-added options [6][7][8][9]. In the current era of competition and the desire to attract more customers, the integration of multiple user-defined requirements into the conventional textile is often indispensable [10].…”

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Smart E-Textile Systems: A Review for Healthcare Applications

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E-textiles is a new hybrid field developed with the help of the integration of electronic components into our daily usage of textile products. These wearable e-textiles provide user-defined applications as well as normal textile clothing. The medical field is one of the major leading areas where these new hybrid products are being implemented, and relatively mature products can be observed in the laboratory as well as in commercial markets. These products are developed for continuous patient monitoring in large-scale hospital centers as well as for customized patient requirements. Meanwhile, these products are also being used for complex medical treatments and the replacement of conventional methods. This review manuscript contains a basic overview of e-textile systems, their components, applications, and usages in the field of medical innovations. E-textile systems, integrated into customized products for medical needs, are discussed with their proposed properties and limitations. Finally, some recommendations to enhance the e-textile system’s integration into the medical field are argued.

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“…One of the main challenges for smart textiles is to maintain good performance once individual parts are integrated into the system [ 4 , 5 ]. Another important challenge is to increase their life cycle and reusability in order to overcome situations that create external exposure, such as the washing and drying processes [ 6 , 7 ]. Furthermore, combining dissimilar materials with different elasticities together to create a hybrid system with the desired functionality is another challenge in smart textiles development [ 8 ].…”

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Integrating Electronics to Textiles by Ultrasonic Welding for Cable-Driven Applications for Smart Textiles

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The connection between flexible textiles and stiff electronic components has always been structurally weak and a limiting factor in the establishment of smart textiles in our everyday life. This paper focuses on the formation of reliable connections between conductive textiles and conventional litz wires using ultrasonic welding. The paper offers a promising approach to solving this problem. The electrical and mechanical performance of the samples were investigated after 15 and 30 wash-and-dry cycles in a laundry machine. Here the contact resistances and their peeling strength were measured. Furthermore, their connection properties were analysed in microsections. The resistance of the joints increased more than 300%, because the silver-coated wires suffered under the laundry cycles. Meanwhile, the mechanical strength during the peeling test decreased by only about 20% after 15 cycles and remained the same after 30 cycles. The good results obtained in this study suggest that ultrasonic welding offers a useful approach to the connection of textile electronics to conductive wires and to the manufacture of smart textiles.

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Integration of Conductive Materials with Textile Structures, an Overview

Cited by 67 publications

References 134 publications

Textile-Based Mechanical Sensors: A Review

Textile-Based Mechanical Sensors: A Review

Smart E-Textile Systems: A Review for Healthcare Applications

Integrating Electronics to Textiles by Ultrasonic Welding for Cable-Driven Applications for Smart Textiles

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