Applications of nanotechnology in production of smart sportswear

Applications of nanotechnology in production of smart sportswear
Abstract:
Smart clothing and fabrics are growing rapidly in various field. Wearable technology will become a staple product like trousers and a shirt. Applications of Nano materials in clothes are constantly growing to improve performance and create unparalleled clothing functions for their enormous technical, economic and ecological advantages. Nano materials will either improve existing properties or add new one’s clothes functions like dirt resistance and water Repellent, breathable, UV protection, conductive, anti-static, corrosion anti-wrinkle properties and resistance to bacteria. This research aims to identify nanotechnology and its fields of applications, especially in the field of sportswear and smart clothes, and preparing a study for an Egyptian smart sports product from an Egyptian brand and comparing it with a smart sportswear from a foreign brand. The study showed the ability of the smart sports product produced from an Egyptian brand to compete with the foreign product with the big difference in price as the price of the foreign product is much higher. Many tests were done, mechanical and physical tests to ensure the functional properties achieved in both products, such as the Explosion resistance test, Bacterial and microbe resistant test, Air permeability test, water permeability test, Water repellency test, Soil release test and the electron microscope measure (SEM) was also conducted for the producers to study their morphological structure. The research recommends increasing smart products in the Egyptian market, as it is considered the future of clothing worldwide.
Keywords:
Smart clothes – Nano technology – sports wear – functional clothes.