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Towards conductive textiles: coating polymeric fibres with graphene.

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 ?sq^-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.

SUBMITTER: Neves AIS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5484677 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Towards conductive textiles: coating polymeric fibres with graphene.

Neves Ana I S AIS Rodrigues Daniela P DP De Sanctis Adolfo A Alonso Elias Torres ET Pereira Maria S MS Amaral Vitor S VS Melo Luis V LV Russo Saverio S de Schrijver Isabel I Alves Helena H Craciun Monica F MF

Scientific reports 20170626 1

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<sup>-1</sup>, 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 fi ...[more]

PMID: 28652581

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