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GLOBAL INVESTOR 1.16 — 23<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
SELF-<br />
HEALING<br />
FABRICS –<br />
A NECESSITY<br />
Are you fed up with<br />
repairing your children’s<br />
clothes? Don’t<br />
give up hope – there<br />
is a solution for your<br />
problem. The ability<br />
of fabrics to automatically<br />
mend themselves<br />
is currently<br />
the most promising<br />
feature of smart<br />
textiles in the whole<br />
fabric industry. The<br />
capability of textile<br />
materials and fabrics<br />
to “self-heal” can<br />
ultimately lead to<br />
long-lasting products<br />
that require next to<br />
no maintenance and<br />
fewer resources<br />
for structural applications.<br />
Self-healing<br />
fabrics are a mindboggling<br />
invention<br />
that resorts to several<br />
strategies such<br />
as “reversible crosslinks”<br />
using nanotechnology<br />
that<br />
releases healing<br />
agents, and employing<br />
technologies<br />
like “shape memory<br />
effect,” “nanoparticle<br />
migration,” “electro<br />
hydrodynamics,”<br />
“conductivity” and<br />
“co-deposition.”<br />
✖ FOR MORE ON<br />
E-TEXTILES, SEE P. 44<br />
You can find out more<br />
about self-healing<br />
fabrics by using<br />
the QR code above.
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