Capacitors have been made on textile substrates. Stainless steel yarns were
used as electrodes. The dielectric material was a mixture of PEDOT and PSS.
Stainless steel yarns were used as the electrodes. These capacitors are
developed to be inserted in wearable textiles, a research field called smart
textiles. After charging, a spontaneous discharge was observed lasting for
several hours. By connecting a small resistance or even a short circuit for
a certain time, it was observed that the voltage starts to rise afterwards
when the load resistor or the short circuit was removed. This phenomenon is
known as dielectric absorption. It was observed for the PEDOT:PSS cells that
the voltage recovery is relatively high as compared to other materials.
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