Smart Fibres Fabrics and Clothing Book

Smart technology for textiles and clothing - an overview and review, X Tao

* Introduction
• Development of smart technology for textiles and clothing
• Outline of the book

Electrically active polymer materials: application of non-ionic polymer gel and elastomers for artificial muscles, T Hirai, J Zheng, M Watanabe, and H Shirai

* Introduction
• Polymer materials as actuators or artificial muscle
• Peculiarity of polymer gel actuator
• Triggers for actuating polymer gels
• Electro-active polymer gels as artificial muscles
• From electro-active polymer gel to electro-active elastomer with large deformation
• Conclusions

Heat storage and thermo-regulated textiles and clothing, X Zhang

* Development introduction
• Basics of heat-storage materials
• Manufacture of heat-storage and thermo-regulated textiles and clothing
• Properties of heat-storage and thermo-regulated textiles and clothing application
• Development trends

Thermally sensitive materials, P Bajaj

* Introduction
• Thermal storage and thermal insulating fibres
• Thermal insulation through polymeric coatings
• Design of fabric assemblies

Cross-linked polyol fibrous substrates as multifunctional and multi-use intelligent materials, T L Vigo and D P Thibodeaux

* Introduction
• Fibrous intelligent materials
• Experimental
• Results and discussion
• Conclusions

Stimuli-responsive interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels composed of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(acrylic acid), Y M Lee and S Y Kim

* Introduction
• Experimental
• Results and discussion
• Conclusions

Permeation control through stimuli-responsive polymer membrane prepared by plasma and radiation grafting techniques, Y M Lee and J K Shim

* Introduction
• Experimental
• Results and discussion
• Conclusions

Mechanical properties of fibre Bragg gratings, X Tian and X Tao

* Introduction
• Fabric techniques
• Mechanisms of FBG sensor fabrication
• Mechanical properties
• Influence of the UV irradiation on mechanical properties
• Polymeric fibre
• Conclusions

Optical responses of FBG sensors under deformations, D Yang and X Tao

* Introduction
• Optical methodology for FBG sensors
• Optical responses under tension
• Optical responses under torsion
• Optical responses under lateral compression
• Optical responses under bending
• Conclusions

Smart textile composites integrated with fibre optic sensors, X Tao

* Introduction
• Optical fibres and fibre optic sensors
• Principal analysis of embedded fibre Bragg grating sensors
• Simultaneous measurements of strain and temperature
• Measurement effectiveness
• Reliability of FBGs
• Error of strain measurement due to deviation of position and direction
• Distributed measurement systems
• Conclusions

Hollow fibre membranes for gas separation, P J Brown

* Historical overview of membranes for gas separation
• Developments of membranes for industrial gas separation
• Theories of permeation processes
• Phase inversion and hollow fibre membrane
• Future hollow fibre membranes and industrial gas separation

Embroidery and smart textiles, B Selm, B Bischoff and R Seidl

* Introduction
• Basics of embroidery technology
• Embroidery for technical applications - tailored fibre placement
• Embroidery technology used for medical textiles
• Embroidered stamp - gag or innovation?
• Summary

Adaptive and responsive textile structures (ARTS), S M Park and S Jayaraman

* Introduction
• Textiles in computing: the symbiotic relationship
• The Georgia Tech Wearable MotherboardTM
• GTWM: contributions and potential applications
• Emergence of a new paradigm: harnessing the opportunity
• Conclusion

Wearable technology for snow clothing, H Matilla

* Introduction
• Key issues and performance requirements
• The prototype
• Conclusions

Bio-processing for smart textiles and clothing, E Heine and H Hoecker

* Introduction
• Treatment of wool with enzymes
• Treatment of of cotton with enzymes
• Enzymatic modification of synthetic fibres
• Spider silk
• 'Intelligent fibres'
• Conclusions

Tailor-made intelligent polymers for biomedical applications, A Lendlein

* Introduction
• Fundamental aspects of shape memory materials
• Concept of biodegradable shape memory polymers
• Degradable thermoplastic elastomers having shape memory properties
• Degradable polymer networks having shape memory properties
• Conclusion and outlook

Textile scaffolds in tissue engineering, S Ramakrishna

* Introduction
• Ideal scaffold system
• Scaffold materials
• Textile scaffolds
• Conclusions