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Advances in Electrically Conductive Textiles

Materials, Characterization, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 24, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Subhankar Maity, Pintu Pandit, Saptarshi Maiti
  • Language: English

Nonmetallic electroconductive textiles, unlike metals, offer flexibility, durability, moldability, and lightweight attributes. A brilliant quality of these textiles is the ca… Read more

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Description

Nonmetallic electroconductive textiles, unlike metals, offer flexibility, durability, moldability, and lightweight attributes. A brilliant quality of these textiles is the capability to alter conductivity through various external stimuli (e.g., strain, torsion, pH, humidity) to suit a specific application such as sensors, heating garments, EMI shielding, energy harvesting devices, and wearable electronics.

Based on these concepts, Advances in Electrically Conductive Textiles: Materials, Characterization, and Applications has been structured into three main sections. Section I contains chapters discussing the various preparation methods of electroconductive textiles, Section II contains chapters on their characteristics and features, and Section III details the end-use applications and sustainability of these textiles.

Key features

  • Explores strategies and methods in the development of electroconductive textile composites
  • ​​​​​Investigates features of nonmetallic conductive textiles prepared from graphene, conductive polymers, MXene, and carbon nanotubes
  • Examines the application of electroconductive textiles for heat generation, EMI shielding, sensors, antimicrobial, filtration, energy storage, energy harvesting, and smart textiles

Readership

Subject experts in industry and research, Undergraduate and postgraduate students in textile engineering, electronic engineering, and fashion technology degrees

Table of contents

Section I: Introduction & Processing

1. Introduction to electroconductive textiles

2. Preparation of conductive polymer-coated textiles

3. Processing and preparation of graphene-based electroconductive textiles

4. MXene-based electroconductive textiles: synthesis to multidirectional applications

5. Green synthesis of graphene oxide using coconut shell extract for multifunctional cotton fabric

6. Conductive ink for printable wearable textile electronics

Section II: Characterization

7. Electrical properties of textiles

8. Development of conductive polymer-coated textiles for heat generation

9. Development of wearable strain, pressure, and humidity sensors

10. Development of conductive polymer-coated textiles for pressure and strain sensors

11. Development of conductive textiles for electromagnetic shielding

Section III: Applications

12. Shape memory applications of electroconductive textiles

13. Conductive polymer and its application in textile-based thermoelectric generators

14. Development of test methods of the efficiency, durability, and safety of Joule heating textiles

15. Antimicrobial efficacy of electroconductive textiles

16. Smart and interactive textiles

17. Wearable flexible energy storage devices

18. Textile electret filter media

19. Textile wearable antennas

20. Graphene-based textiles for electromagnetic interference shielding

21. Conductive floor covering

22. Triboelectric nanogenerator-based smart textiles

23. Sustainability in production and opportunities of electroconductive textiles

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 24, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Subhankar Maity

Dr. Subhankar Maity is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Textile Technology in Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, India. He has more than 10 years of industrial, teaching and research experience. His current teaching areas are technical textiles; structure and properties of fibres; statistical quality control in textile industry; knitting technology, and fabric formation. His main research focuses on conductive polymer coated textiles; graphene-based textiles; MXene based electro-conductive textiles; heat transfer behaviour of fibrous/polymeric materials and related functional textiles. He has more than 50 publications and has edited and authored for leading refereed journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant professor of Knitting, The Department of Textile Technology, Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur, India

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Pintu Pandit

Dr. Pintu Pandit is an Assistant Professor at the Textile Design Department of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India. He received his Ph. D (Tech.) degree in Fibres and Textile Processing Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology, India. He obtained the IEI Young Engineers Award in 2020 from the Institute of Engineers (India) and Young Educator & Scholars Award in 2021 from the NFED (India). He has several research, review, and book chapter publications for national and international Scopus indexed journals in the areas of: Best out of waste; sustainability in textile and fashion; low-cost sustainable markets; natural dyeing; multifunctional finishing; graphene; atmospheric plasma technology, and nanotechnology. He has edited books for numerous prestigious publishers, including Woodhead publications (Elsevier). He has also published a series of chapters on “Graphene as a Wonder Material” in the Journal of Textile Association (TAI).
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Textile Design Department of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, Patna campus, Patna, India

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Saptarshi Maiti

Dr. Saptarshi Maiti is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), India, after completing his post-doctoral research from ICT-Mumbai in 2022. He holds a PhD (Tech.) and M. Tech in Fibres and Textile Processing Technology from the Department of Fibres and Textile Processing Technology, ICT-Mumbai. His research areas include graphene and its applications in textiles; dendritic polymers; Protein extraction from waste resources; natural dyeing, and green processing of Textiles. He has to his credit more than 50 international publications and around 20 book chapters in the areas of textile chemistry and materials science and 1 patent. He has also published a series of chapters on “Graphene as a Wonder Material” in the Journal of Textile Association (TAI). Dr. Maiti has expertise in graphene and its applications in textiles. He is a Life member of The Indian Natural Fibre Society (INFS).
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Fibres and Textile Processing Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India

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