Towards conductive textiles: coating polymeric fibres with graphene
Neves, A; Rodrigues, DP; De Sanctis, A; et al.Torres Alonso, E; Pereira, MS; Amaral, VS; Melo, LV; Russo, S; de Schrijver, I; Alves, H; Craciun, MF
Date: 26 June 2017
Journal
Scientific Reports
Publisher
Springer Nature
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Abstract
Conducting fibres are essential to the development of e-textiles. We demonstrate a method to make common insulating textile fibres conductive, by coating them with graphene. The resulting fibres display sheet resistance values as low as 600 Ωsq−1, demonstrating that the high conductivity of graphene is not lost when transferred to ...
Conducting fibres are essential to the development of e-textiles. We demonstrate a method to make common insulating textile fibres conductive, by coating them with graphene. The resulting fibres display sheet resistance values as low as 600 Ωsq−1, demonstrating that the high conductivity of graphene is not lost when transferred to textile fibres. An extensive microscopic study of the surface of graphene-coated fibres is presented. We show that this method can be employed to textile fibres of different materials, sizes and shapes, and to different types of graphene. These graphene-based conductive fibres can be used as a platform to build integrated electronic devices directly in textiles.
Physics and Astronomy
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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