READ ME File For 'Aqueous Washing Test on PDMS Conformally Encapsulated Capacitive Touch and Proximity Sensing Circuit E-Textiles'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D0866

ReadMe Author: Olivia Olamide Ojuroye, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the thesis entitled 'Tailored Polydimethylsiloxane Circuit Encapsulation for Washable and Mechanically-Deformable Proximity and Touch Sensing Electronic Textiles for Wearables and Beyond'
AWARDED BY: Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
DATE OF AWARD: 23/07/2019

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA
This data is based on a compilation of  experiments that ultimately made a NXP Semiconductor PCF8883US bare die copper-polyimide circuit survive underwater and detergent/fabric conditioner washing in a commercial washing machine. These are in dataset titled 'Aqueous Polydimethlysiloxane (PDMS) Mixing Ratio Determination Tests for encapsulating circuits for E-Textile applications' https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D0864.
The contents of this dataset are results tables for the e-textile washing tests completed during this PhD and compliant with international standard ISO 6330:2012. E-textile woven fabric swatches with integrated PDMS-encapsulated copper-polyimide PCF8883US capacitive proximity and touch sensing circuits were washed at different Bosch Serie | 4 WVD24520GB Exxcel WVD24520GB-1 settings - SuperQuick, Wool, and Silk/Delicates at a constant 30 degrees Celsius temperature. Each wash had 4-5kg of textiles (in addition to the e-textile fabric swatches), had Ariel’s Excel Colour Wash detergent and Comfort Pure fabric conditioner.

The data in this set were collected at the  University of Southampton, Test Lab, Zepler Building, Level 4. The data can be viewed using Microsoft Excel.

This dataset contains:
Experimental data that was published in conference paper titled 'Improving the integration of e-textile microsystems' encapsulation by modifying PDMS formulation'


Date of data collection: May - June 2018

Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K.

Licence: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Related projects/Funders:
This research was funded in the UK by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) via the project: Novel manufacturing methods for Functional Electronic TexTiles (FETT). Grant number: EP/M015149/1. 


Date that the file was created: April, 2019