Knot‐Patterned Treble‐Weaving Smart Electronic Textiles With Advanced Thermal and Moisture Regulation for Seamless Motion Monitoring
Abstract Smart e‐textiles have shown unique advantages in mediating this interactions with the world. Despite substantial progress, the practical application of e‐textiles in wearable technologies remains limited by challenging tasks of integrating both optimal electrical performance and thermal‐moisture comfort into a single fabric, particularly at industrial scales. Herein, leveraging a meta‐textile structural design, a smart treble‐weaving electronic textile (TWET) that combines highly sensitive sensing capabilities with radiative cooling is developed and enhanced sweat management through meta‐yarn junction blocks forming hierarchical fabric architectures. Unlike conventional layered fabrics by simply compositing different functional layers, the TWET fabric integrates multimodal sensing, optical and moisture management into an all‐in‐one construction and leverages its interlacing structures as conduits for heat and moisture transmission, which contributes to outstanding thermal‐moisture comfort. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the TWET performs robust monitoring and perception of human motion signals against heat stress. It is also shown that frequency‐domain signals resulting from Fourier transformation can interpret and distinguish temporal‐spatial features of regulating walking and stepping in place. This meta‐textile hierarchical‐assembly concept enables integrated thermal and moisture management in next‐generation e‐textiles, offering great potential for scalable production and multifunctionality through the precise engineering of meta‐structures.
Authors
- Fengxin Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9842-915X)
- Pengpeng Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2547-1517)
- Xiaorui Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-4304)
- Xuzhong Su
- Yangyang Peng
- Jieyun Zhao
Institutions
- Jiangnan University (CN)
- Coventry University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Published
- 2025-03-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202501912
- Citations
- 18
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.13
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
- National Key Research and Development Program of China