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Garment Devices

Integrating Energy

Storage into Textiles

Kristy Jost, Genevieve Dion, and Yury Gogotsi

24.1 INTRODUCTION

Portable electronics have evolved rapidly over the last 10 years and now wear-

able technologies are following the same trend. While multifunctional clothes are

appearing on the market with a multitude of electronic devices incorporated onto the

fabric, garment devices are articles of clothing with inherent electronic properties.

Garment devices are the actual device, a new kind of technology, also referred to

as e- textiles or smart garments (Quinn, 2010; Seymour, 2008, 2010). Cutting edge

research on garment and textile ...