ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2020
Machine-Washable Conductive Silk Yarns with a Composite Coating of Ag Nanowires and PEDOT:PSS.
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- Towards biodegradable conducting polymers by incorporating seaweed cellulose for decomposable wearable heaters.RSC advances · 2023Article
- Conductance stable and mechanically durable bi-layer EGaIn composite-coated stretchable fiber for 1D bioelectronics.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Soft Electronics for Health Monitoring Assisted by Machine Learning.Nano-micro letters · 2023Review
- Washable PEDOT:PSS Coated Polyester with Submicron Sized Fibers for Wearable Technologies.ACS omega · 2023Article
- A Review of Electro Conductive Textiles Utilizing the Dip-Coating Technique: Their Functionality, Durability and Sustainability.Polymers · 2022Review
- Colorful Conductive Threads for Wearable Electronics: Transparent Cu-Ag Nanonets.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Advances in the Robustness of Wearable Electronic Textiles: Strategies, Stability, Washability and Perspective.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Progress in Flexible Electronic Textile for Heating Application: A Critical Review.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- New Progress on Fiber-Based Thermoelectric Materials: Performance, Device Structures and Applications.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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- A Review of Multiple Scale Fibrous and Composite Systems for Heating Applications.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- E-Textile Systems Reliability Assessment-A Miniaturized Accelerometer Used to Investigate Damage during Their Washing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Conducting materials as building blocks for electronic textiles.MRS bulletin · 2021Review
- Green Conducting Cellulose Yarns for Machine-Sewn Electronic Textiles.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2020Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Electrically conducting fibers and yarns are critical components of future wearable electronic textile (e-textile) devices such as sensors, antennae, information processors, and energy harvesters. To achieve reliable wearable devices, the development of robust yarns with a high conductivity and excellent washability is urgently needed. In the present study, highly conductive and machine-washable silk yarns were developed utilizing a Ag nanowire and PEDOT:PSS composite coating. Ag nanowires were coated on the silk yarn via a dip-coating process followed by coating with the conjugated polymer:polyelectrolyte complex PEDOT:PSS. The PEDOT:PSS covered the Ag nanowire layers while electrostatically binding to the silk, which significantly improved the robustness of the yarn as compared with the Ag nanowire-coated reference yarns. The fabricated conductive silk yarns had an excellent bulk conductivity of up to ∼320 S/cm, which is largely retained even after several cycles of machine washing. To demonstrate that these yarns can be incorporated into e-textiles, the conductive yarns were used to construct an all-textile out-of-plane thermoelectric device and a Joule heating element in a woven heating fabric.
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