Smart textiles, which are the textiles with innovative and technological applications, can receive and give responses to the external stimuli so as to accommodate themselves to changes in surrounding. ‘Self-functioning’ is an ability of a matter for performing a specific process or response on its own automatically towards a corresponding requirement. In recent decades, the implementation of smart textiles with various ‘self-functioning’ capabilities has been opened up increasingly. It would be a vital role for maintaining the sustainability of textile and clothing industry. In this paper, a general review of smart textiles with the three ‘self-functioning’ abilities is addressed and divided into the following sections: a. Smart fabrics with ‘self-cleaning’ ability; b. Smart textiles with ‘self-healing’ ability and c. Smart textile apparels with ‘self-thermoregulation’ ability
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Li, L., & Cheung, T. W. (2018). Sustainable development of smart textiles: a review of ‘self-functioning’ abilities which makes textiles alive. Journal of Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.15406/jteft.2018.04.00133
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