Roll-to-Roll Dyed Conducting Silk Yarns: A Versatile Material for E-Textile Devices
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

KGaA, Weinheim Textiles are a promising base material for flexible and wearable electronic applications such as sensors, actuators, and energy harvesters. An essential component in such electronic textiles (e-textiles) is electrically conducting yarns. Here, a continuous dyeing process is presented to convert an off-the-shelf silk sewing thread into a wash and wear resistant functional thread with a conductivity of about 70 S cm−1; a record high value for coated yarns. An aqueous ink based on the conducting polymer:polyelectrolyte complex poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) is modified, to produce more than 100 m of dyed conducting threads, which are subsequently converted into e-textiles by both hand weaving and machine embroidery. The yarns are resistant to abrasion and wear, and can be machine washed at least 15 times with retained electronic properties. The woven fabric is used to design a capacitive touch sensor which functions as an e-textile keyboard.

electronic textile

e-textile

conducting fibers

PEDOT:PSS

Författare

Anja Lund

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Sozan Darabi

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Sandra Hultmark

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Jason Ryan

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Barbro Andersson

Göteborgs hemslöjdsförening

Anna Ström

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Christian Müller

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Advanced Materials Technologies

2365709X (eISSN)

Vol. 3 12 1800251

Ämneskategorier

Textil-, gummi- och polymermaterial

Materialkemi

Kompositmaterial och -teknik

DOI

10.1002/admt.201800251

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