TY - JOUR
T1 - Destructive-Treatment-Free Rapid Polymer-Assisted Metal Deposition for Versatile Electronic Textiles
AU - Zhang, Yaokang
AU - Luo, Yufeng
AU - Wang, Lei
AU - Ng, Pui Fai
AU - Hu, Hong
AU - Chen, Fan
AU - Huang, Qiyao
AU - Zheng, Zijian
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1-ZVT8 and 1-YXA1), the Science and Technology Bureau of Huangpu District (202GH03), and the Innovation and Technology Fund-Guangdong-Hong Kong Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme (ITF-TCFS, GHP/047/20GD).
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PY - 2022/12/21
Y1 - 2022/12/21
N2 - Highly conductive, durable, and breathable metal-coated textiles are critical building block materials for future wearable electronics. In order to enhance the metal adhesion on the textile surface, existing solution-based approaches to preparing these materials require time-consuming presynthesis and/or premodification processes, typically in the order of tens of minutes to hours, on textiles prior to metal plating. Herein, we report a UV-induced rapid polymer-assisted metal deposition (r-PAMD) that offers a destructive-treatment-free process to deposit highly conductive metals on a wide variety of textile materials, including cotton, polyester, nylon, Kevlar, glass fiber, and carbon cloth. In comparison to the state of the arts, r-PAMD significantly shortens the modification time to several minutes and is compatible with the roll-to-roll fabrication manner. Moreover, the deposited metals show outstanding adhesion, which withstands rigorous flexing, abrasion, and machine washing tests. We demonstrate that these metal-coated textiles are suitable for applications in two vastly different fields, being wearable and washable sensors, and lithium batteries.
AB - Highly conductive, durable, and breathable metal-coated textiles are critical building block materials for future wearable electronics. In order to enhance the metal adhesion on the textile surface, existing solution-based approaches to preparing these materials require time-consuming presynthesis and/or premodification processes, typically in the order of tens of minutes to hours, on textiles prior to metal plating. Herein, we report a UV-induced rapid polymer-assisted metal deposition (r-PAMD) that offers a destructive-treatment-free process to deposit highly conductive metals on a wide variety of textile materials, including cotton, polyester, nylon, Kevlar, glass fiber, and carbon cloth. In comparison to the state of the arts, r-PAMD significantly shortens the modification time to several minutes and is compatible with the roll-to-roll fabrication manner. Moreover, the deposited metals show outstanding adhesion, which withstands rigorous flexing, abrasion, and machine washing tests. We demonstrate that these metal-coated textiles are suitable for applications in two vastly different fields, being wearable and washable sensors, and lithium batteries.
KW - electronic textile
KW - polymer-assisted metal deposition
KW - surface treatment
KW - washability
KW - wearable electronics
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U2 - 10.1021/acsami.2c19278
DO - 10.1021/acsami.2c19278
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36475587
AN - SCOPUS:85143871269
SN - 1944-8244
VL - 14
SP - 56193
EP - 56202
JO - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
JF - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
IS - 50
ER -