Overview
- Presents a comprehensive overview of smart textiles, from fundamental theory to real applications
- Supports students and academics through examples & exploration of experimental techniques
- Provides a working reference tool suitable for those in the smart textiles industry
- Collates leading expertise from diverse scientific and engineering communities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(38 entries)
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Smart Fibers and Fibrous Assembly Structures
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Interactive Textile Devices
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
Xiaoming Tao
About the editor
Prof. Tao is a leading figure in “Smart textiles”, for her outstanding research work on nanotechnology, photonic fibres and fabrics, flexible electronic and photonic devices in the last 18 years. She founded the Hong Kong Nanotechnology Centre for Functional and Intelligent Textile and Apparel in 2004. Prof. Tao has conducted numerous research projects and published more than 600 scientific publications including over 200 international journal papers. She is recognized by ISI as one of the top 1% most cited materials scientists in the world. She published the world first monograph on smart textiles in 2001. Among some a dozen books published on this topic around the world, she has three. Prof. Tao has been invited to deliver plenary/keynote presentations in over 70 international conferences. Among over 20 awards received by Prof. Tao, the most prestigious ones include the Honorary Fellowship of Textile Institute in 2011, the highest individual award of the field.A great lover of scientific discovery, Prof. Tao is also a prolific inventor of new technologies with 19 granted patents. Eight of the invented technologies have been licensed to companies worldwide for industrial applications. One of them has been used by 9 companies around the world and produced new textile and apparel products worth over 10.5 billion Hong Kong dollars. She started a company in 2011 with her PhD students to produce and market electronic textiledevices and systems under the trademark SoftceptorTM . Her photonic fabrics created by integrating science and arts together have been invited to exhibit in Tokyo Museum of Future and Hong Kong Art Museum.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Smart Textiles
Editors: Xiaoming Tao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-45-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4451-44-4Published: 16 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4451-45-1Published: 31 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 1063
Number of Illustrations: 191 b/w illustrations, 374 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optical and Electronic Materials, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Textile Engineering, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering