Smart Textiles for Healthcare: Applications and Technologies
@inproceedings{Meika2014SmartTF, title={Smart Textiles for Healthcare: Applications and Technologies}, author={Viktorija Me{\vc}ņika and Melanie Hoerr and Anne Schwarz and Ivars Krieviņ{\vs}}, year={2014} }
Smart textiles are considered to be a new niche for products with great potentials on the textile and apparel market. Generally, smart textiles are referred as textile products with additional value, i.e. they have the common properties of textiles, but insure additional functions, providing attractive solutions for a wide range of application fields, such as healthcare, clothing for protection and sports and technical textiles for automotive industry. However, manufacturing of smart textile…
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