Some Significant Trends in Conductive Textiles

Comparison of the conductive properties of polyester/viscose fabric treated with Cu nanoparticle and MWCNTs

“…Then, we applied the cyclic voltammetry (CV) to describe the electrode resistance functions. Afterwards, 5 mM [Fe (CN) 6 As shown in the plots, the difference is increased by increasing the percentage of nanoparticles. On the other hand, this difference in the samples treated by CNT has a special regularly compared to Cu-treated samples, which seems to indicate the conductivity quality.…”

“…However, new utilization of the nanotechnology in the textiles would afford diverse features with the potentials for better and novel uses in the products [4,5]. A number of arts are existing for producing conductive fabrics which include coating metals, conducting polymers over the fabric surfaces, metallic salts films [6], and carbon derivatives [7] or polymeric film synthesis [8][9][10].…”

“…In fact, textile materials such as the filaments and fibers, which yarn together with the knitted, woven or non-woven structures and can have interaction with the surrounding/users have been called the smart textiles. However, it has been found that converging the electronics and textiles, that is e-textiles, may be suitable to design the smart materials with the abilities of the performance various functions that are now observed in the non-flexible and rigid electronic products [6]. Electrical resistance of a material indicates how strongly the material opposes the flow of electric current through it.…”

Antibacterial Fibers Containing Nanosilica with Immobilized Silver Nanoparticles

“…In order to modify the cellulose fibers, a water-alcohol solution of nanosilica with immobilized silver nanoparticles (size of nanoparticles: 13 nm; content of silver nanoparticles: ~69,546 ppm; dry matter content: 5.15%) was used as a nanomodifier. The nanomodifier was made at the Department of Polymer Technology and Processing (Industrial Chemistry Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland) according to the procedure described in patent PL-217617 [10].…”

“…The possibilities of silver nanoparticle modifi cation were used in textile technologies in the production of antibacterial textiles due to their potential to reduce infection transmission in medical environments [9]. The functionalization of textile products with the use of silver nanoparticles can be accomplished by depositing silver nanoparticles on the surface of the fi nished textile product by a fi nishing treatment, e.g., spraying (using low-temperature plasma), surfacing by pad baths or coating (sol-gel or "layer-bylayer" methods), or by producing silver nanoparticles directly on the surface and inside the fi bers [10][11][12]. Silver nanoparticles can also be introduced into the spinning solution in the fi ber production process [13,14].…”