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Chemically Driven Printed Textile Sensors Based on Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

The unique properties of graphene, such as the high elasticity, mechanical strength, thermal conductivity, very high electrical conductivity and transparency, make them it an interesting material for stretchable electronic applications. In the work presented herein, the authors used graphene and car...

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Autores principales: Skrzetuska, Ewa, Puchalski, Michał, Krucińska, Izabella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25211197
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140916816
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Puchalski, Michał
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description The unique properties of graphene, such as the high elasticity, mechanical strength, thermal conductivity, very high electrical conductivity and transparency, make them it an interesting material for stretchable electronic applications. In the work presented herein, the authors used graphene and carbon nanotubes to introduce chemical sensing properties into textile materials by means of a screen printing method. Carbon nanotubes and graphene pellets were dispersed in water and used as a printing paste in the screen printing process. Three printing paste compositions were prepared—0%, 1% and 3% graphene pellet content with a constant 3% carbon nanotube mass content. Commercially available materials were used in this process. As a substrate, a twill woven cotton fabric was utilized. It has been found that the addition of graphene to printing paste that contains carbon nanotubes significantly enhances the electrical conductivity and sensing properties of the final product.
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spelling pubmed-42082022014-10-24 Chemically Driven Printed Textile Sensors Based on Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Skrzetuska, Ewa Puchalski, Michał Krucińska, Izabella Sensors (Basel) Article The unique properties of graphene, such as the high elasticity, mechanical strength, thermal conductivity, very high electrical conductivity and transparency, make them it an interesting material for stretchable electronic applications. In the work presented herein, the authors used graphene and carbon nanotubes to introduce chemical sensing properties into textile materials by means of a screen printing method. Carbon nanotubes and graphene pellets were dispersed in water and used as a printing paste in the screen printing process. Three printing paste compositions were prepared—0%, 1% and 3% graphene pellet content with a constant 3% carbon nanotube mass content. Commercially available materials were used in this process. As a substrate, a twill woven cotton fabric was utilized. It has been found that the addition of graphene to printing paste that contains carbon nanotubes significantly enhances the electrical conductivity and sensing properties of the final product. MDPI 2014-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4208202/ /pubmed/25211197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140916816 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title_full_unstemmed Chemically Driven Printed Textile Sensors Based on Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
title_short Chemically Driven Printed Textile Sensors Based on Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25211197
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140916816
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