Skrzetuska Ewa, Rzeźniczak Paulina
Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design, Textile Institute, Lodz University of Technology, 116, Zeromskiego Str., 90-924 Lodz, Poland.
Sensors (Basel). 2025 Mar 13;25(6):1787. doi: 10.3390/s25061787.
The integration of flexible electronics into textiles and smart products has revolutionized industries, enabling innovations such as wearable health monitors, interactive clothing, and energy-harvesting fabrics. However, the rapid growth of these technologies poses significant challenges for sustainability and circularity. This paper explores the concept of circular economy in the context of smart textiles and products containing flexible electronics. It highlights the technical, environmental, and economic challenges associated with their end-of-life management and proposes strategies to enhance circularity, including design for disassembly, advanced recycling technologies, and policy frameworks. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions to achieve a sustainable lifecycle for these advanced materials.
将柔性电子器件集成到纺织品和智能产品中已经彻底改变了各个行业，催生了可穿戴健康监测器、交互式服装和能量收集织物等创新产品。然而，这些技术的快速发展给可持续性和循环利用带来了重大挑战。本文探讨了智能纺织品和包含柔性电子器件的产品背景下的循环经济概念。它强调了与它们的报废管理相关的技术、环境和经济挑战，并提出了增强循环利用的策略，包括可拆卸设计、先进的回收技术和政策框架。本文最后讨论了实现这些先进材料可持续生命周期的未来研究方向。
