Screen Printing Carbon Nanotubes Textiles Antennas for Smart Wearables.

ABSTRACT: Electronic textiles have become a dynamic research field in recent decades, attracting attention to smart wearables to develop and integrate electronic devices onto clothing. Combining traditional screen-printing techniques with novel nanocarbon-based inks offers seamless integration of flexible and conformal antenna patterns onto fabric substrates with a minimum weight penalty and haptic disruption. In this study, two different fabric-based antenna designs called PICA and LOOP were fabricated through a scalable screen-printing process by tuning the conductive ink formulations accompanied by cellulose nanocrystals. The printing process was controlled and monitored by revealing the relationship between the textiles' nature and conducting nano-ink. The fabric prototypes were tested in dynami

SUBMITTER: Ibanez Labiano I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8309715 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature