Towards the Functional Ageing of Electrically Conductive and Sensing Textiles: A Review

Christian Biermaier; Thomas Bechtold; Tung Pham

doi:10.3390/s21175944

Towards the Functional Ageing of Electrically Conductive and Sensing Textiles: A Review

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21175944 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (17) ◽

pp. 5944

Author(s):

Christian Biermaier ◽

Thomas Bechtold ◽

Tung Pham

Keyword(s):

Electronic Textiles ◽

Electrically Conductive ◽

Laboratory Methods ◽

Chemical Corrosion ◽

Textile Design ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

Engineering Information ◽

Aging Mechanisms ◽

Cumulative Fatigue Damage ◽

Critical Overview

Electronic textiles (e-textiles) have become more and more important in daily life and attracted increased attention of the scientific community over the last decade. This interdisciplinary field of interest ranges from material science, over chemistry, physics, electrical engineering, information technology to textile design. Numerous applications can already be found in sports, safety, healthcare, etc. Throughout the life of service, e-textiles undergo several exposures, e.g., mechanical stress, chemical corrosion, etc., that cause aging and functional losses in the materials. The review provides a broad and critical overview on the functional ageing of electronic textiles on different levels from fibres to fabrics. The main objective is to review possible aging mechanisms and elaborate the effect of aging on (electrical) performances of e-textiles. The review also provides an overview on different laboratory methods for the investigation on accelerated functional ageing. Finally, we try to build a model of cumulative fatigue damage theory for modelling the change of e-textile properties in their lifetime.

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Macroscopic assembly of flexible and strong green graphene fibres

RSC Advances ◽

10.1039/c7ra03975a ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (43) ◽

pp. 26735-26744 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

R. Bakhtiari ◽

S. Ghobadi ◽

E. N. Güllüoğlu ◽

L. I. Şanlı ◽

S. A. Gürsel ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Electronic Textiles ◽

Electrically Conductive ◽

Scalable Production

The scalable production presented here facilitates flexible, strong and electrically conductive graphene fibres, which have emerged as promising graphene based electronic textiles and sensors.

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Electrically Conductive Coatings for Fiber-Based E-Textiles

Fibers ◽

10.3390/fib7060051 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

pp. 51 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kony Chatterjee ◽

Jordan Tabor ◽

Tushar K. Ghosh

Keyword(s):

Base Material ◽

Electronic Textiles ◽

Electrically Conductive ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Conductive Coatings ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Electrically Conducting ◽

Smart Textile ◽

Communication Devices ◽

Electrically Conductive Coatings

With the advent of wearable electronic devices in our daily lives, there is a need for soft, flexible, and conformable devices that can provide electronic capabilities without sacrificing comfort. Electronic textiles (e-textiles) combine electronic capabilities of devices such as sensors, actuators, energy harvesting and storage devices, and communication devices with the comfort and conformability of conventional textiles. An important method to fabricate such devices is by coating conventionally used fibers and yarns with electrically conductive materials to create flexible capacitors, resistors, transistors, batteries, and circuits. Textiles constitute an obvious choice for deployment of such flexible electronic components due to their inherent conformability, strength, and stability. Coating a layer of electrically conducting material onto the textile can impart electronic capabilities to the base material in a facile manner. Such a coating can be done at any of the hierarchical levels of the textile structure, i.e., at the fiber, yarn, or fabric level. This review focuses on various electrically conducting materials and methods used for coating e-textile devices, as well as the different configurations that can be obtained from such coatings, creating a smart textile-based system.

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Paramente – Wirkung und Bedeutung in der römisch-katholischen Liturgie

10.5771/9783828873773 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Alicia Jablonski

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Cultural Anthropology ◽

Design Studies ◽

Textile Design ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

Tangible Object ◽

The University ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Working Out

Originating from the fields of anthropology and art history, research on the physically tangible object is gaining more importance as a direct carrier of meaning of material culture. Textile studies belongs to this interdisciplinary field. It is the basis of this examination with the aim of working out the impact of paraments in Christian liturgy. In how far do the textile objects complement, support or suggest the cultic effect of liturgy? In the context of cultural anthropology, which impact and meaning emanate from a textile object, and is it to be understood as an autonomous object of material culture? A cope of the libri regalia by textile artist Edith Ostendorf serves as a generic textile. Alicia Jablonski studied Art and Communication of Art as well as Fashion-Textile-Design Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany. This work is her thesis for which she received a grant of the city of Paderborn.

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Cryogenic atomic force microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100084570 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 54-55

Author(s):

K. A. Fisher ◽

M. G. L. Gustafsson ◽

M. B. Shattuck ◽

J. Clarke

Keyword(s):

Room Temperature ◽

Rapid Freezing ◽

Cryogenic Temperatures ◽

Soft Or ◽

Electrically Conductive ◽

Force Microscopy ◽

Flexible Molecules ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Atomic Force ◽

Chemical Perturbation

The atomic force microscope (AFM) is capable of imaging electrically conductive and non-conductive surfaces at atomic resolution. When used to image biological samples, however, lateral resolution is often limited to nanometer levels, due primarily to AFM tip/sample interactions. Several approaches to immobilize and stabilize soft or flexible molecules for AFM have been examined, notably, tethering coating, and freezing. Although each approach has its advantages and disadvantages, rapid freezing techniques have the special advantage of avoiding chemical perturbation, and minimizing physical disruption of the sample. Scanning with an AFM at cryogenic temperatures has the potential to image frozen biomolecules at high resolution. We have constructed a force microscope capable of operating immersed in liquid n-pentane and have tested its performance at room temperature with carbon and metal-coated samples, and at 143° K with uncoated ferritin and purple membrane (PM).

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