A Robust Core‐Shell Nanofabric with Personal Protection, Health Monitoring and Physical Comfort for Smart Sportswear
Smart textiles with a high level of personal protection, health monitoring, physical comfort, and wearing durability are highly demanded in clothing for harsh application scenarios, such as modern sportswear. However, seamlessly integrating such a smart clothing system has been a long-sought but challenging goal. Herein, based on coaxial electrospinning techniques, a smart non-woven textile (Smart-NT) integrated with high impact resistance is developed, multisensory functions, and radiative cooling effects. This Smart-NT is comprised of core-shell nanofibers with an ionic conductive polymer sheath and an impact-stiffening polymer core. The soft smart textile, with a thickness of only 800 µm, can attenuate over 60% of impact force, sense pressure stimulus with sensitivity up to 201.5 kPa<sup>-1</sup>, achieve temperature sensing resolution of 0.1 °C, and reduce skin temperature by ≈17 °C under a solar intensity of 1 kW m<sup>-2</sup>. In addition, the stretchable Smart-NT is highly durable and robust, retaining its multifunction features over 10 000 bending and multiple washing cycles. Finally, application scenarios are demonstrated for real-time health monitoring, body protection, and physical comfort of smart sportswear based on Smart-NT for outdoor sports. The strategy opens a new avenue for seamless integration of smart clothing systems.
Authors
- Peiqi Wu
- Jiajie Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2112-6721)
- Jianfeng Gu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0762-6976)
- Xinyi Ji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7788-9720)
- Huihui Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3871-2640)
- Xue Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2104-9335)
- Xinmin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5515-3248)
- Weiqing Zhan
- Yue Zhao
- Xiaoqian Mi
- Yichen Ren
Institutions
- Nankai University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2024-10-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202411131
- Citations
- 38
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.01
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City
- National Key Research and Development Program of China