Carbon Nanotube- and Graphene-Based Conductive Inks for Smart Textiles: Sources, Processing, Properties, and Future Prospects
M Abu Darda, Shafat Ahmed Bin Kamal, Sabbir Ahmed Abir, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Shahin Hossain
Email: abudarda@buft.edu.bd
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Abstract
In the last few decades, smart textiles have drawn the attention of human beings for their unique and substantial properties. With the increased demand for wearable smart textiles, comfortable, soft and flexible devices are required that will not compromise the comfortability of garments. A very efficient way to make such garments is to use conductive ink. Conductive ink can be applied in garments for imparting electronic properties to the base textile material like fiber, yarn, and fabric. Conductive inks are applied in the field of transparent electrodes as cheap, sensors, labels of biological sensing, marking of radiofrequency, super capacitor electrodes, photonics, transistors etc. This study attempts to review the information of carbon nanotubes, and graphene-based conductive inks-their sources, preparation processes, properties, applications, limitations and prospects.
