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Fibers and fabrics for chemical and biological sensing

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posted on 2017-08-31, 10:51 authored by Shirley Coyle, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Tanja RaduTanja Radu, King-Tong Lau, Dermot Diamond
Wearable sensors can be used to monitor many interesting parameters about the wearer’s physiology and environment, with important applications in personal health and well-being, sports performance and personal safety. Wearable chemical sensors can monitor the status of the wearer by accessing body fluids, such as sweat, in an unobtrusive manner. They can also be used to protect the wearer from hazards in the environment by sampling potentially harmful gas emissions, such as carbon monoxide. Integrating chemical sensors into textile structures is a challenging and complex task. Issues which must be considered include sample collection, calibration, waste handling, fouling and reliability. Sensors must also be durable and comfortable to wear. Here, we present examples of wearable chemical sensors that monitor the person and also his/her environment. We also discuss the issues involved in developing wearable chemical sensors and strategies for sensor design and textile integration.

Funding

This work is supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant 07/CE/I1147 and the European Union under PROeTEX FP6-2004-IST-4-06987.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Research Journal of Textile and Apparel

Volume

14

Issue

4

Pages

63 - 72

Citation

COYLE, S. ... et al, 2010. Fibers and fabrics for chemical and biological sensing. Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, 14 (4), pp. 63-72.

Publisher

© Emerald

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2010

Notes

This paper is closed access.

ISSN

1560-6074

Language

  • en