Sustainable electronic textiles towards scalable commercialization

Textiles represent a fundamental material format that is extensively integrated into our everyday lives. The quest for more versatile and body-compatible wearable electronics has led to the rise of electronic textiles (e-textiles). By enhancing textiles with electronic functionalities, e-textiles de...

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Published in:Nature materials 2023-11, Vol.22 (11), p.1294-1303
Main Authors: Shi, HaoTian Harvey, Pan, Yifei, Xu, Lin, Feng, Xueming, Wang, Wenyu, Potluri, Prasad, Hu, Liangbing, Hasan, Tawfique, Huang, Yan Yan Shery
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biomaterials
Chemistry and Materials Science
Circular economy
Commercialization
Condensed Matter Physics
Design for recycling
Materials Science
Materials selection
Nanotechnology
Optical and Electronic Materials
Perspective
Reduction
Resilience
Supply chains
Sustainability
Textile design
Textiles
User experience
Wearable technology
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Summary:Textiles represent a fundamental material format that is extensively integrated into our everyday lives. The quest for more versatile and body-compatible wearable electronics has led to the rise of electronic textiles (e-textiles). By enhancing textiles with electronic functionalities, e-textiles define a new frontier of wearable platforms for human augmentation. To realize the transformational impact of wearable e-textiles, materials innovations can pave the way for effective user adoption and the creation of a sustainable circular economy. We propose a repair, recycle, replacement and reduction circular e-textile paradigm. We envisage a systematic design framework embodying material selection and biofabrication concepts that can unify environmental friendliness, market viability, supply-chain resilience and user experience quality. This framework establishes a set of actionable principles for the industrialization and commercialization of future sustainable e-textile products. The commercialization of electronic textile (e-textile) products requires balanced sustainability considerations. Here the authors propose an e-textile design framework involving repair, recycle, replacement and reduction that can unify environmental friendliness, market viability, supply-chain resilience and user experience quality.
ISSN:1476-1122
1476-4660
DOI:10.1038/s41563-023-01615-z