Nanosensors and Nanodevices for Smart Multifunctional Textiles

Andrea Ehrmann is Professor of Measurement Technology, Physics and Textile Technologies at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Her research focuses on the 3D printing of textile materials. Phuong Nguyen-Tri is a full professor and director of the graduate program in energies and material science at the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Québec, Canada. He is the founder of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment (Nguyen-Tri Lab) at UQTR and holds the UQTR Research Chair of Advanced Materials for Health and Security at Work. His main research interests are nanomaterials, hybrid nanoparticles, innovative coatings, polymer crystallization, polymer aging, and polymer blends and composites.Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.

• PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS1. Smart nano-textiles: An introduction2. Advanced characterization techniques for textiles3. Methods for design and fabrication of nanosensors used in textiles4. Methods for design and fabrication of nanodevices used in textiles5. Nanosensors for passive smart textiles6. Nanosensors and nanodevices for active smart textiles7. Mathematical modeling and simulation of smart textilesPART 2: APPLICATIONS8. Water and oil repellent textiles9. Nanobased antibacterial textiles10. Smart electronic yarns and wearable fabrics for human biomonitoring11. Organic electronics on natural cotton fibres12. Electroconductive cotton textiles using graphene13. Carbon coated textiles for flexible energy storage14. Nanopatterned textile-based wearable triboelectric nanogenerator15. Highly sensitive biosensors from textiles16. Soft capacitor fibers using conductive polymers for electronic textiles17. Flexible fiber batteries18. Design transforming dress based on pneumatic systems19. Structures of novel antimicrobial agents for textiles20. Color-changing and color-tunable photonic bandgap fiber textiles21. Smart and electronic textiles22. Smart textiles in healthcare23. Light emitting textiles for photodynamic therapy textiles24. Textile nano-antennas25. Flexible photovoltaic cells embedded into textile structures26. Textiles for flexible solar cells and 3D printable materialsPART 3: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND FUTURE SCOPES27. Environmental impacts28. Future scopes and current applications of smart-nanotextiles