Wearable electronics and photonics

Xiaoming Tao0849325951, 9780849325953, 1855736055

Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept that opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities, data transfer, individual environment control, and so on. Fashion articles will carry key pads for mobile phones and connections for personal music systems; specialist clothing will be able to monitor the vital life signs of new-born babies, record the performance of an athlete’s muscles, and call a rescue team to victims of accidents in adverse weather conditions. In this book, a team of international authors discusses the technical materials and processes that will facilitate all of these possibilities.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
Contributor contact details……Page 9
Preface……Page 13
1.1 Overview……Page 15
1.2 Current and future wearable technology……Page 16
1.3 Applications of wearable electronics and photonics……Page 22
1.4 Implications of wearable technology……Page 24
1.5 References……Page 26
2.1 Introduction……Page 27
2.2 Electrospinning process……Page 29
2.3 Electroactive nanofibres……Page 35
2.4 Ultra-low dielectric constant of nanocomposite fibrous film……Page 48
2.5 Conclusions……Page 51
2.6 Acknowledgements……Page 52
2.7 References……Page 53
3.1 Introduction……Page 55
3.2 Fabrication of samarium and manganese doped lead titanate fibres……Page 56
3.3 Fabrication of ceramic fibre/epoxy 1-3 composites……Page 59
3.5 The modified parallel and series model of ceramic/polymer 1-3 composites……Page 63
3.6 Possible uses of ceramic fibres and composites in intelligent apparel applications……Page 68
3.8 References……Page 69
4.1 Introduction……Page 73
4.2 Sensing fabrics……Page 76
4.3 Actuating fabrics……Page 81
4.5 Smart fabrics for motion capture……Page 85
4.6 Smart textiles as kinaesthetic interfaces……Page 90
4.9 References……Page 93
5.1 Introduction……Page 95
5.2 Conductive textiles……Page 96
5.3 Electromechanical properties of PPy-coated conductive fibres/yarns……Page 98
5.4 Performance of electrically conductive fabrics……Page 109
5.5 Applications……Page 115
5.6 Conclusions……Page 116
5.8 References……Page 117
6.1 Introduction……Page 119
6.2 Smart textiles……Page 121
6.3 Modelling and analysis……Page 125
6.4 Manufacturing of smart textiles……Page 129
6.5 Applications of smart textiles……Page 138
6.7 References……Page 147
6.8 Bibliography……Page 148
7.2 Photonic band-gap materials……Page 150
7.3 Fibre-harvesting ambient light-reflective displays……Page 152
7.4 Opto-amplification in active disordered media and photonic band-gap structures……Page 154
7.5 Electroluminescent fibres and fabrics……Page 159
7.7 Acknowledgements……Page 165
7.8 References……Page 166
8.1 Introduction……Page 169
8.2 Communication apparel……Page 170
8.3 Optical fibre fabric display……Page 177
8.5 References……Page 188
9.1 Introduction……Page 191
9.2 Why is clothing an ideal place for intelligent systems?……Page 192
9.3 Electronic textiles……Page 193
9.4 Electrical characterisation of textile networks……Page 198
9.5 Conclusions……Page 208
9.6 Future challenges……Page 209
9.7 References……Page 210
10.1 Introduction……Page 212
10.2 Smart clothing concept model……Page 213
10.3 Data transfer in smart clothing……Page 216
10.4 Implementations for communication……Page 228
10.6 References……Page 234
11.1 Introduction……Page 237
11.2 Knowledge age: dematerialisation of information and com-munications technology and the rise of ubiquitous intelligence……Page 238
11.3 New commercial imperatives……Page 240
11.4 Design and development: multidisciplinary collaboration……Page 242
11.5 A new language for textiles: combining the real and the virtual……Page 243
11.6 Technology enablers……Page 250
11.7 Future technology enablers……Page 253
11.8 Conclusions……Page 254
11.10 References……Page 255
11.11 Sources of further information……Page 256
Index……Page 258