INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

ADVANCES IN TEXTILE MATERIALS AND PROCESSES (ATMP) 2019

CONDUCTIVE FABRIC PREPARATION BY GRAPHENE OXIDE

Madan Lal Regar1, A I Amjad1, Priyanshi Gupta2, Garima Pal3, Divya Dixit3
1
Department of Textile Engg., Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute Kanpur, UP, India
2
Department of Textile Tech., Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute Kanpur, UP, India
3
Department of Textile Chem. Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur, UP, India
*corresponding author: priyanshig2611@gmail.com
Abstract:
Wearable E-textile is an emerging field there are many different people who are all approaching their
craft from many different perspectives, these innovations have changed the way we interact with our
clothes, each other and our environment.

It is not certain when people first started wearing clothes, however, Anthropologists estimate that it
was somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 years ago. The first clothes were made from natural
elements: animal skin, fur, grass, leaves, bones, and shells. Humans had to invent weaving, spinning,
tools, and the other techniques needed to be able to make the fabric used for clothing. In earlier times
fabric protects us from various types of weather. In modern times clothes are becoming more attractive
by many processes like coating, finishing, printing, etc. Now a day’s fabric is being used in various
types of fields like aerospace, medicals, agriculture, construction and automobiles.

Conductive fabrics can be produced by coating the nonconductive fabric with conductive materials,
using coating processes such as: spraying, electroless plating, plasma treatment, textile coating
/printing etc. Conductive fabrics that dissipate static energy and protect from electromagnetic fields
alongside other attributes such as thermal regulation, anti-allergy properties etc. unlike most technical
textiles, smart textiles are not passive in their function: they can sense and respond to stimuli such as
touch, temperature or heartbeat. Intelligent textiles can incorporate antennas, global positioning system
(GPS) without comprising the inherent characteristics of the fabric.

Graphene has emerged as a revolutionary material in different fields of science and engineering due to
its extra ordinary properties such as: High electron mobility, High thermal conductivity, mechanical
properties and easy functionalization. The field of textiles is continuously integrating new materials to
provide fabrics with new functionalities, hence its incorporation on fabrics was a logical step. Its
application to the field of textiles has been recently reported, which has allowed the development of
textiles with different functionalities such as: antistatic, UV protecting, electro conductive,
photocatalytic, thermal conductivity and sensors.

Reference

L. Thomas, Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology: Woven structures and their impact on
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