Environmentally-friendly conductive cotton fabric as flexible strain sensor based on hot press reduced graphene oxide
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A flexible conductive cotton fabric was demonstrated by formulation and deposition of a graphene oxide (GO) dispersion onto a cotton fabric by vacuum filtration. The deposited GO amount was controlled by the concentration and volume of the GO dispersion. The GO was reduced by a hot press method at 180 °C for 60 min, and no chemical reductant was needed in both the deposition and reduction processes. The carbon-oxygen ratio increased from 1.77 to 3.72 after the hot press reduction. The as-prepared flexible conductive cotton fabric showed a sheet resistance as low as 0.9 kΩ/sq. The sheet resistance of the conductive cotton fabric only increased from ∼0.9 kΩ/sq to ∼1.2 kΩ/sq after 10 washing cycles, exhibiting good washability. The conductive cotton fabric showed viability as a strain sensor even after 400 bending cycles, in which the stable change in the electrical resistance went from ∼3500 kΩ under tensile strain to ∼10 kΩ under compressive strain. This cost-effective and environmentally-friendly method can be easily extended to scalable production of reduced GO based flexible conductive cotton fabrics.
Date Issued
2017-01-01
Date Acceptance
2016-10-18
Citation
Carbon, 2017, 111, pp.622-630
ISSN
0008-6223
Start Page
622
End Page
630
Journal / Book Title
Carbon
Volume
111
Copyright Statement
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Technology
Chemistry, Physical
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Chemistry
Materials Science
GRAPHITE OXIDE
THERMAL REDUCTION
RAMAN-SPECTRA
TEXTILES
SUPERCAPACITOR
ELECTRODE
FIBERS
NANOCOMPOSITE
EXFOLIATION
SHEETS
03 Chemical Sciences
02 Physical Sciences
09 Engineering
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2016-10-19