Preparation and applications of electrically conducting fabrics

  • Lee, Jun-Young (Department of Textile Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Jinsoo Joo (Department of Physics, Korea University) ;
  • Lim, Jeong-Ok (Medical Research Institute, Kyungpook National University)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

Electrically conducting polymers such as polypyrrole(PPy) or poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene)(PEDOT) were sequentially polymerized chemically and electrochemically on various kinds of woven fabrics, giving rise to the fabrics with high electrical conductivity. The specific volume resistivity of the fabric prepared in this study was extremely low as 0.2 $\Omega$-cm. We figured out the electrically conducting fabrics were practically useful for many applications such as an EMI shielding material, a flexible surface heating element or a strain sensor for large deformation.

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