3D textile structures with integrated electroactive electrodes for wearable electrochemical sensors. Issue 11 (1st November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Farajikhah, Syamak; Choi, Jaecheol; Esrafilzadeh, Dorna; Underwood, Jenny; Innis, Peter C; Paull, Brett; Wallace, Gordon G
• Is Part Of: Journal of the Textile Institute. Volume 111:Issue 11(2020)
• Page Start: 1587
• Page End: 1595
• Publication Date: 2020-11-01
• Subjects: wearable sensor -- textile-based sensor -- conducting polymers -- knitting -- braiding; Textile industry -- Periodicals; Textile fabrics -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 677.005
• DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2020.1720968
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-5000

Abstract

Abstract: Common textile fabrication techniques have been utilised as scalable and cost-effective production methods for fabricating flexible 3 D textile electrode platforms. These textile structures may be readily integrated with electroactive electrodes that can potentially carry out electrochemical detection in wearable devices. Here we demonstrate that conductive fibre or yarn-based electrodes can be readily incorporated into knitted and braided textile structures for electrochemical detection. Due to the poor nature of these commodity-based conducting yarns and fibres surface modification utilising electrodeposition of conducting polypyrrole and or gold nanoparticles was demonstrated to enhance the device performance.