Abstract
Smart e‐textiles have shown unique advantages in mediating this interactions with the world. Despite substantial progress, the practical application of e‐textiles in wearable technologies remains limited by challenging tasks of integrating both optimal electrical performance and thermal‐moisture comfort into a single fabric, particularly at industrial scales. Herein, leveraging a meta‐textile structural design, a smart treble‐weaving electronic textile (TWET) that combines highly sensitive sensing capabilities with radiative cooling is developed and enhanced sweat management through meta‐yarn junction blocks forming hierarchical fabric architectures. Unlike conventional layered fabrics by simply compositing different functional layers, the TWET fabric integrates multimodal sensing, optical and moisture management into an all‐in‐one construction and leverages its interlacing structures as conduits for heat and moisture transmission, which contributes to outstanding thermal‐moisture comfort. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the TWET performs robust monitoring and perception of human motion signals against heat stress. It is also shown that frequency‐domain signals resulting from Fourier transformation can interpret and distinguish temporal‐spatial features of regulating walking and stepping in place. This meta‐textile hierarchical‐assembly concept enables integrated thermal and moisture management in next‐generation e‐textiles, offering great potential for scalable production and multifunctionality through the precise engineering of meta‐structures.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 2501912 |
| Pages (from-to) | (In-Press) |
| Journal | Advanced Functional Materials |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 35 |
| Early online date | 27 Mar 2025 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Aug 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2025 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Funding
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, grant no. 12272149 and 11802104), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (grant no. 2023M741400), Key Science and Technology Project of Fuzhou (grant no. 2024\u2010ZD\u2010006), Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (grant no. KYCX24_2560), and partly by the National Key Research and Development Program (grant no. 2017YFB0309200).
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| China Postdoctoral Science Foundation | 2023M741400, 2024‐ZD‐006 |
| China Postdoctoral Science Foundation | |
| National Key Research and Development Program of China | 2017YFB0309200 |
| National Key Research and Development Program of China | |
| Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province | KYCX24_2560 |
| National Natural Science Foundation of China | 12272149, 11802104 |
| National Natural Science Foundation of China |
Keywords
- directional water transport
- radiative cooling
- sensing textiles
- smart wearables
- treble-weaving structure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- General Chemistry
- Biomaterials
- General Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrochemistry