Towards seamlessly-integrated textile electronics: methods to coat fabrics and fibers with conducting polymers for electronic applications.
Chem Commun (Camb)
; 53(53): 7182-7193, 2017 Jun 29.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28555696
ABSTRACT
Traditional textile materials can be transformed into functional electronic components upon being dyed or coated with films of intrinsically conducting polymers, such as poly(aniline), poly(pyrrole) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene). A variety of textile electronic devices are built from the conductive fibers and fabrics thus obtained, including physiochemical sensors, thermoelectric fibers/fabrics, heated garments, artificial muscles and textile supercapacitors. In all these cases, electrical performance and device ruggedness is determined by the morphology of the conducting polymer active layer on the fiber or fabric substrate. Tremendous variation in active layer morphology can be observed with different coating or dyeing conditions. Here, we summarize various methods used to create fiber- and fabric-based devices and highlight the influence of the coating method on active layer morphology and device stability.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Chem Commun (Camb)
Journal subject:
QUIMICA
Year:
2017
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos