Shape memory active thermal-moisture management textiles

Thermal-moisture comfort has become a basic and essential need for human body. Personal thermal-moisture management textiles can regulate skin microenvironment effectively, improving comfortableness. Up to now, for most thermal-moisture management fabrics, the structures or functions are static and cannot make response to environmental real-time changes. Active fabrics can flexibly respond to environmental stimuli, showing a broad prospect in intelligent thermal-moisture management. Among them, shape memory active fabrics can sense external stimuli and make corresponding changes in morphological/fabric structure, presenting outstanding advantages. This review focuses on shape memory active thermal-moisture management fabrics, introducing the mechanism of shape memory and thermal-moisture management, summarizing the researches and applications of related textiles. And the existing problems and future development are envisioned, including but not limited to the improvement of shape memory properties, multimodal thermal-moisture management, the integration of multiple-disciplinary technologies. These smart textiles would exhibit great potential in personal comfort, intelligent wearable devices, etc.