Crafting Wearables: Blending Technology with Fashion

© Sibel Deren Guler, Madeline Gannon, and Kate Sicchio 2016

Sibel Deren Guler, Madeline Gannon and Kate Sicchio, Crafting Wearables, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1808-2_7

7. Materials That Matter

Sibel Deren Guler¹ , Madeline Gannon² and Kate Sicchio¹

(1)Brooklyn, New York, USA

(2)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Now that you are better acquainted with e-textiles and textiles, I am going to introduce a new set of materials that, in my opinion, make wearables far more interesting. For now, I will generally refer to them as smart materials. A smart material, in essence, is any material that has a property that changes state in reaction to an external stimuli such as temperature or light. Smart materials include piezoelectric materials , which generate voltage when ...