Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018,China
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10.7502/j.issn.1674-3962.2014.11.02
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Thermo-responsive textile is a kind of smart material which can respond to the change of the environmental temperature. New functions and value can be added to textiles via connecting thermo-responsive polymers through physical or chemical methods. Many promising applications have been recently developed for thermo-responsive textiles including temperature/moisture adaptive fabrics, anti-immersion coats, water-storage materials, textiles for perfume control release and even healthcare, etc. The developing trend for thermo-responsive textile is toward to high stability, high efficiency, soft hand and low cost. This review systematically illustrates the fundamental mechanism of the thermo-responsive polymers, including the main types of thermo-responsive polymers, the phase transition behavior and the regulation of the lower critical solution temperature (LCST). The recent research on thermo-responsive textiles and their applications, the newly-developed technologies to immobilize thermo-responsive polymers onto textile, and the diverse categories of textiles for thermo-responsive uses are reviewed. The current challenges and potential solutions of the thermo-responsive textiles are also briefly summarized at the end of this review.