Towards conductive textiles: coating polymeric fibres with graphene

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 graphe...

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Autores principales: Neves, Ana I. S., Rodrigues, Daniela P., De Sanctis, Adolfo, Alonso, Elias Torres, Pereira, Maria S., Amaral, Vitor S., Melo, Luis V., Russo, Saverio, de Schrijver, Isabel, Alves, Helena, Craciun, Monica F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5484677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28652581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04453-7
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Sumario: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.

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