Basics of Electrically Conductive Textiles: Manufacturing, Characterization, and Applications.

Deogaonkar-Baride, Smita

Textiles that carry electricity are known as conductive textiles. It is made up of nonconductive substrates like cotton, polyester, and nylon that are either coated or implanted with electrically conductive materials including nickel, copper, gold, silver, titanium, carbon and so on. Metal mesh, aerospace textiles, taser or stun gun jackets, conductive threads or yarns, fabric sheets used for thermal heating, and other products based on these conductive textiles These fabrics can be employed in a variety of applications due to their conductivity. Low-conductivity fabrics can be used for antistatic or ESD clothing, medium-conductivity fabrics for smart textiles or wearable electronics, and very high-conductivity fabrics for EMI shielding applications. The ways of producing conductive textiles, their characterization in terms of surface/volume resistance are discussed in this work. This paper also mentions BTRA's Conductive textile testingfacility which includes Electrometer, EMI shielding analyzer, and Static honestometer.

ELECTROTEXTILES; WEARABLE technology; THERMAL conductivity; POLYESTERS; ELECTRICITY

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