Recent Advances in 2D MXene Integrated Smart-Textile Interfaces for Multifunctional Applications

Coupled with the advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality, and soft robotics, wearable smart textiles have emerged as a unique platform for next-generation electronics. Nanofabrication of textiles with electroactive materials has significantly augmented wearable smart textile systems offering health monitoring, self-powered energy management, and portable sensing. The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbide and nitride called “MXene” has revolutionized material chemistry research due to its unique properties such as metallic conductivity, rich surface chemistry, tunable terminations, and excellent processability. These excellent properties of MXene-based materials have attracted huge attention of the research community. This review summarizes the current progress in MXene-based textile, fibers, yarns, fabrics, and composites for various applications. Initially, the unique surface chemistry and…