Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications
Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications
Wearable e-textiles have gained huge tractions due to their potential for non-invasive health monitoring. However, manufacturing of multifunctional wearable e-textiles remains challenging, due to poor performance, comfortability, scalability, and cost. Here, we report a fully printed, highly conductive, flexible, and machine-washable e-textiles platform that stores energy and monitor physiological conditions including bio-signals. The approach includes highly scalable printing of graphene-based inks on a rough and flexible textile substrate, followed by a fine encapsulation to produce highly conductive machine-washable e-textiles platform. The produced e-textiles are extremely flexible, conformal, and can detect activities of various body parts. The printed in-plane supercapacitor provides an aerial capacitance of ∼3.2 mFcm−2 (stability ∼10,000 cycles). We demonstrate such e-textiles to record brain activity (an electroencephalogram, EEG) and find comparable to conventional rigid electrodes. This could potentially lead to a multifunctional garment of graphene-based e-textiles that can act as flexible and wearable sensors powered by the energy stored in graphene-based textile supercapacitors.
Islam, Md Rashedul
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Beach, Christopher
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Parraman, Carinna
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Abdelkader, Amr
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Casson, Alexander J.
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Novoselov, Kostya S.
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Karim, Nazmul
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9 March 2022
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Parraman, Carinna
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Abdelkader, Amr
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Casson, Alexander J.
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Novoselov, Kostya S.
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Karim, Nazmul
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Islam, Md Rashedul, Afroj, Shaila, Beach, Christopher, Islam, Mohammad Hamidul, Parraman, Carinna, Abdelkader, Amr, Casson, Alexander J., Novoselov, Kostya S. and Karim, Nazmul
(2022)
Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications.
iScience, 25 (3), [103945].
(doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.103945).
Abstract
Wearable e-textiles have gained huge tractions due to their potential for non-invasive health monitoring. However, manufacturing of multifunctional wearable e-textiles remains challenging, due to poor performance, comfortability, scalability, and cost. Here, we report a fully printed, highly conductive, flexible, and machine-washable e-textiles platform that stores energy and monitor physiological conditions including bio-signals. The approach includes highly scalable printing of graphene-based inks on a rough and flexible textile substrate, followed by a fine encapsulation to produce highly conductive machine-washable e-textiles platform. The produced e-textiles are extremely flexible, conformal, and can detect activities of various body parts. The printed in-plane supercapacitor provides an aerial capacitance of ∼3.2 mFcm−2 (stability ∼10,000 cycles). We demonstrate such e-textiles to record brain activity (an electroencephalogram, EEG) and find comparable to conventional rigid electrodes. This could potentially lead to a multifunctional garment of graphene-based e-textiles that can act as flexible and wearable sensors powered by the energy stored in graphene-based textile supercapacitors.
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Accepted/In Press date: 15 February 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 February 2022
Published date: 9 March 2022
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