Environmentally-friendly conductive cotton fabric as flexible strain sensor based on hot press reduced graphene oxide

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• 作者：Jiesheng Ren^a ; Chaoxia Wang^a ; ^{wangchaoxia@sohu.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Xuan Zhang^a ; Tian Carey^b ; Kunlin Chen^a ; Yunjie Yin^a ; Felice Torrisi^b ; ^{ft242@eng.cam.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 刊名：Carbon
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：111
• 期：Complete
• 页码：622-630
• 全文大小：2286 K

文摘

A flexible conductive cotton fabric was demonstrated by formulation and deposition of a graphene oxide (GO) dispersion onto a cotton fabric by vacuum filtration. The deposited GO amount was controlled by the concentration and volume of the GO dispersion. The GO was reduced by a hot press method at 180 °C for 60 min, and no chemical reductant was needed in both the deposition and reduction processes. The carbon-oxygen ratio increased from 1.77 to 3.72 after the hot press reduction. The as-prepared flexible conductive cotton fabric showed a sheet resistance as low as 0.9 kΩ/sq. The sheet resistance of the conductive cotton fabric only increased from ∼0.9 kΩ/sq to ∼1.2 kΩ/sq after 10 washing cycles, exhibiting good washability. The conductive cotton fabric showed viability as a strain sensor even after 400 bending cycles, in which the stable change in the electrical resistance went from ∼3500 kΩ under tensile strain to ∼10 kΩ under compressive strain. This cost-effective and environmentally-friendly method can be easily extended to scalable production of reduced GO based flexible conductive cotton fabrics.