Three-Dimensional Flexible All-Organic Conductors for Multifunctional Wearable Applications

Autor: Jungwoo Oh, Hee Uk Lee, Seung Wook Kim, Seonno Yoon, In Kyu Moon
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9:40580-40592
ISSN: 1944-8252
1944-8244
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b10181
Popis: Wearable textile electrodes based on π-conjugated polymers are appealing alternatives to carbon fabrics, conductive yarns, or metal wires because of their design flexibility, low cost, flexibility, and high throughput. This provides the benefits of both electronics and textiles. Herein, a general and new method has been developed to produce tailorable, wearable energy devices that are based on three-dimensional (3D) poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-coated textile conductors. To obtain the desired electrode materials, both facile solution-dropping polymerization methods are used to fabricate a 3D flexible PEDOT conductor on a cotton textile (PEDOT/textile). PEDOT/textile shows a very low sheet resistance of 4.6–4.9 Ω·sq–1. Here, we employ the example of this 3D network-like structure and the excellent electrical conductivities under the large deformation of PEDOT/textiles to show that wearable and portable heaters have immense potential. A flexible textile heater with a large area (8 × 7.8 cm2) rea...
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