Green Conducting Cellulose Yarns for Machine-Sewn Electronic Textiles.

ABSTRACT: The emergence of "green" electronics is a response to the pressing global situation where conventional electronics contribute to resource depletion and a global build-up of waste. For wearable applications, green electronic textile (e-textile) materials present an opportunity to unobtrusively incorporate sensing, energy harvesting, and other functionality into the clothes we wear. Here, we demonstrate electrically conducting wood-based yarns produced by a roll-to-roll coating process with an ink based on the biocompatible polymer:polyelectrolyte complex poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS). The developed e-textile yarns display a, for cellulose yarns, record-high bulk conductivity of 36 Scm^-1, which could be further increased to 181 Scm^-1

SUBMITTER: Darabi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7747218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature