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The paper presents the coating of commercially available textile threads with metals in order to provide it with electroconductive properties. This can be done in different ways such as metallization, electroless deposition, electrodeposition, chemical coating, carbon and metallic compound inclusion and application of electroconductive composites. However, by using the coating method (through depositing layers), high performance textile threads are made electroconductive without losing their other properties. Furthermore, using coated instead of a solid metal fibre is more cost-effective especially if the desired metal is expensive such as gold, platinum or silver because the required amount of metal is considerably less.The method was initially used for yarns and fabrics, but its application in threads’ production offers further potential in wearable systems. |
