Halocromic Smart Textile Surfaces and Their Medical Usage Possibilities

In recent years, many researchers have been interested in smart textiles. The chromic textiles, being a subclass of intelligent textile materials, change their colors depending on environmental changes and the studies concerning this subject has increased in recent years. Textile materials have many advantages such as strength, flexibility, lightness, and biocompatibility so that they have been meeting the needs of the healthcare industry for many years. Halochromic properties could be given to the textile materials either by conventional methods or by using nanotechnological applications. Although halochromic textiles which change color with changing pH, are rarely known than other chromic textiles; they present an increasing usage potential in the future of medical textiles. In this article; the global market profile of medical textiles and intelligent textiles were summarized, and the researches of halochromic textiles concerning their production and especially their medical uses were outlined