Circular E-Textiles & Monomaterial Design for E-Waste Disassembly: Modular Hardware Architecture, Thermolabile Dissolvable Seams, and Closed-Loop Recycling in Smart Sportswear
The rapid fusion of athletic apparel with advanced microelectronics, physiological telemetry sensors, and active thermoregulation systems has unleashed an urgent environmental crisis: electronic textile (e-textile) waste. Historically, first-generation smart athletic…