• 文献标题:   Engineering Graphene Flakes for Wearable Textile Sensors via Highly Scalable and Ultrafast Yarn Dyeing Technique
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   AFROJ S, KARIM N, WANG ZH, TAN SR, HE P, HOLWILL M, GHAZARYAN D, FERNANDO A, NOVOSELOV KS
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, wearable, etextile, graphene yarn, textile sensor, temperature monitoring
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Manchester
  • 被引频次:   34
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.9b00319
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Multifunctional wearable e-textiles have been a focus of much attention due to their great potential for healthcare, sportswear, fitness, space, and military applications. Among them, electroconductive textile yarn shows great promise for use as next-generation flexible sensors without compromising the properties and comfort of usual textiles. However, the current manufacturing process of metal-based electroconductive textile yarn is expensive, unscalable, and environmentally unfriendly. Here we report a highly scalable and ultrafast production of graphene-based flexible, washable, and bendable wearable textile sensors. We engineer graphene flakes and their dispersions in order to select the best formulation for wearable textile application. We then use a high-speed yarn dyeing technique to dye (coat) textile yarn with graphene-based inks. Such graphene-based yarns are then integrated into a knitted structure as a flexible sensor and could send data wirelessly to a device via a self-powered RFID or a low-powered Bluetooth. The graphene textile sensor thus produced shows excellent temperature sensitivity, very good washability, and extremely high flexibility. Such a process could potentially be scaled up in a high-speed industrial setup to produce tonnes (similar to 1000 kg/h) of electroconductive textile yarns for next-generation wearable electronics applications.