New Research Trends for Textiles, a Bright Future

In order to demonstrate the considerable global impact of textile research and technology, the Publisher, the Editorial Board, and myself have decided to solicit contributions and feature papers from key world-class researchers. These works were collected in a single Special Issue entitled 'New research trends for textiles, a bright future', from September 2022 to May 2023. In total, 18 papers were submitted and 13 were published. These 13 papers can be roughly subdivided into four categories: functional textiles, process and modeling, control, consumers and behavior.