Name: Maliha Sajid

Student ID: 20-NTU-DD-1265

Question 1: What is Smart Textile?

Smart textile:
Smart textiles are defined as textiles that interact with their surroundings.
Basically smart textiles are referred to as those textiles that are able to react and
adapt to an environment stimulus. The origin of the stimulus and the response
can be either from an electrical, thermal, chemical or magnetic source. In recent
years, smart textiles were developed that combine or integrate electronics and
textiles.

Example:
A typical example is a mobile phone application in a shirt sleeve.

Question 2: What is the advantage of developing Smart

Textile?
They provide a unique experience to the user depending on the needs of the person
using them.Temperature regulation, Water Resistance, Blocking Radiations, Muscle
Vibration control & minimizing the effects of Space travel are some purposes for which
smart textiles can provide a solution. Smart textiles are embedded with gadgets, and
they have many advantages; they are designed to provide added values to the
wearer that are unexpected from a regular textile material.

 Fitness: Device or application for monitoring/tracking fitness-

related metrics.
 Music.
 Display of app stored images on the garment.
 Phase and characteristic changes as per the environmental stimuli.
Question 3: What will Smart Textile mean for future
textile products?
As technicians continue to develop these textiles, their capabilities will
expand, making them able to function as a sort of second skin.Temperature-
regulating fabric is already available, but progression will allow for a more
fluid user experience. The fabric will read stimuli and respond to it with a shift
in energy.One of the most significant areas of progression will likely be in the
field of health and wellness. Beauty and medicinal companies are looking at
ways we can make fabrics that positively affect the wearer’s health. This
includes the ability to:
 Track the physiological condition of patients with sensors

 Outfit fabrics with anti-aging properties, lotions, and perfumes

 Administer medicine through wearable textiles

Making clothing that resists wear is presently underway, thanks to the innovation
of smart fabric.
Question 4: What new methods do we need to develop?
Smart fabric textiles not only promote the development, transformation, and
upgrading of the textile industry around the world but also promote the
development of disruptive emerging industries. The main issues are the
incompatibility of some textiles and electronic systems, restraining the
applications for the same products. In addition, the slow adoption rate tends
to promote steady growth for some specific smart textiles. The lack of
regulations and standards is another factor in some products’ steady growth.
Thermal management—The main issue is the development of passive textiles
with active warming/cooling mechanisms to supply extra heat/cold.  A
combination of comfort and specific thermal properties are required.
electricity generation—The field of distributed electronics demands
persuasive energy solutions and an exploration of sustainability, pushing the
research of more than 26 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Military operations—The military, the marines, and other related sectors are
in search of constant changes in both comfort and technical textiles. Severe
climatic situations, combined with abrupt and constant body movements, are
one of the main motivations to drive new technologies.
Medical devices- The preoccupation with providing better healthcare services
now and in the future is intertwined with the development of new textile-
based implantable goods (tendons and artificial ligaments). 
Nanotechnology—These nanotechnologies have various applications such as
healthcare, packing, sports and leisure, defense, home and household,
environmental protection, and geotextiles, among others. The incorporation
of nanoparticles with antimicrobial properties in textiles is another promising
issue.
Electroconductive textiles—electroconductive textiles require conductive
structures in which knittable and weavable filaments are unified with sensors,
energy transport, and energy storage, among others .