Smart shirt: Rice University graduate student Lauren Taylor shows a shirt containing carbon nanotube thread that provides constant monitoring of the wearer’s heart. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice ...

Conductive textiles may represent the next frontier for wearables. China and Korea-based researchers with Advanced Materials Technologies are testing the creation of conductive fabrics by dip-coating ...

Researchers show visible light can polymerize conductive plastics into electrodes without toxic chemicals, enabling sensors on skin, textiles and scalable electronics. (Nanowerk News) Visible light ...

Traditional military training often relies on standardized methods, which has limited the provision of optimized training tailored to individual combatants' characteristics or specific combat ...

Researchers have used lasers to make graphene on Kevlar textiles, creating protective clothing that can record the wearer’s electrocardiogram (ECG) or sense a toxic gas (ACS Nano 2020, DOI: ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers in Japan have developed a textile-permeable conductive ink to improve mechanical durability of printed e-textiles. As the team reports in Advanced Materials ("Enhancing the ...

Advances in wearable devices have enabled e-textiles, which fuse lightweight and comfortable textiles with smart electronics, and are garnering attention as the next-generation wearable technology. In ...

This research focuses on electrical energy storage solutions for textiles and wearable electronics, a fundamental challenge for designers of smart textiles and wearable technology. As a solution to ...

With the wearable electronic device market having firmly established itself in the 21st century, active research is being conducted on electronic textiles, which are textiles (e.g. clothing) capable ...