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Polypyrrole coated knitted fabric for robust wearable sensor and heater

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Nowadays, there has been tremendous interest in multifunctional and smart textiles to meet the pressing demand for new and innovative applications such as personal thermal and healthcare management. Herein, we present a wearable sensor and heater by in situ polymerization of pyrrole on the knitted cellulose fabric. The knitted fabric coated with electrically conductive polypyrrole (PPy) exhibits an electrical conductivity of 303 Ω sq−1. The PPy-cotton knitted fabric can be utilized as the strain sensor because of its high sensitivity to different motion activities. Meanwhile, the PPy-cotton knitted fabric can also act as a wearable heater due to Joule heating effect under a low voltage. Additional non-wettable treatment onto PPy-cotton fabric can efficiently improve the protection against environmental factors. The combination of stretchable knitted fabric with conductive PPy offers a low-cost and efficient solution for multifunctional wearable electronics.

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This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (51502035).

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Hao, D., Xu, B. & Cai, Z. Polypyrrole coated knitted fabric for robust wearable sensor and heater. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 29, 9218–9226 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-8950-2

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