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Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications.

Islam, M.R., Afroj, S., Beach, C., Islam, M.H., Parraman, C., Abdelkader, A., Casson, A.J., Novoselov, K.S. and Karim, N., 2022. Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications. iScience, 25 (3), 103945.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103945

Abstract

Wearable e-textiles have gained huge tractions due to their potential for non-invasive health monitoring. However, manufacturing of multifunctional wearable e-textiles remains challenging, due to poor performance, comfortability, scalability, and cost. Here, we report a fully printed, highly conductive, flexible, and machine-washable e-textiles platform that stores energy and monitor physiological conditions including bio-signals. The approach includes highly scalable printing of graphene-based inks on a rough and flexible textile substrate, followed by a fine encapsulation to produce highly conductive machine-washable e-textiles platform. The produced e-textiles are extremely flexible, conformal, and can detect activities of various body parts. The printed in-plane supercapacitor provides an aerial capacitance of ∼3.2 mFcm−2 (stability ∼10,000 cycles). We demonstrate such e-textiles to record brain activity (an electroencephalogram, EEG) and find comparable to conventional rigid electrodes. This could potentially lead to a multifunctional garment of graphene-based e-textiles that can act as flexible and wearable sensors powered by the energy stored in graphene-based textile supercapacitors.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:2589-0042
Uncontrolled Keywords:Health technology;Materials science;Nanomaterials
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:36764
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:22 Mar 2022 13:18
Last Modified:22 Mar 2022 13:18

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