| dc.contributor.author | Neves, A | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues, DP | |
| dc.contributor.author | De Sanctis, A | |
| dc.contributor.author | Torres Alonso, E | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pereira, MS | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amaral, VS | |
| dc.contributor.author | Melo, LV | |
| dc.contributor.author | Russo, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | de Schrijver, I | |
| dc.contributor.author | Alves, H | |
| dc.contributor.author | Craciun, MF | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-28T14:13:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06-26 | |
| dc.description.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 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. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors would like to thank Dr Yat-Tarng (Tommy) Shyng for the non-contact scanning measurements and would like to acknowledge financial support from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC grants EP/J000396/1, EP/K017160, EP/K010050/1, EP/G036101/1, EP/M002438/1, EP/M001024/1), the Royal Society Travel Exchange Grants 2012 and 2013, the European Commission FP7-ICT-2013-613024-GRASP and H2020-MSCA-IF-2015-704963, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), co-financed by FEDER (PT2020 Partnership Agreement), under contracts PTDC/QEQ-SUP/1413/2012, RECI/CTM-CER/0336/2012, IF/01088/2014, BI/UI89/2015, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007679 (UID/CTM/50011/2013) and COMPETE:FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027465. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 7, article 4250 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-017-04453-7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28224 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_GB |
| dc.rights | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
| dc.title | Towards conductive textiles: coating polymeric fibres with graphene | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-28T14:13:45Z | |
| exeter.article-number | 4250 | en_GB |
| dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer Nature via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
