3D textile structures with integrated electroactive electrodes for wearable electrochemical sensors

Authors

Syamak Farajikhah, University of Wollongong
Jaecheol Choi, University of WollongongFollow
Dorna Esrafilzadeh, University of WollongongFollow
Jenny Underwood
Peter C. Innis, University of WollongongFollow
Brett Paull
Gordon G. Wallace, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

141434

Publication Details

Farajikhah, S., Choi, J., Esrafilzadeh, D., Underwood, J., Innis, P., Paull, B. & Wallace, G. (2020). 3D textile structures with integrated electroactive electrodes for wearable electrochemical sensors. Journal of the Textile Institute,

Abstract

2020, 2020 The Textile Institute. Common textile fabrication techniques have been utilised as scalable and cost-effective production methods for fabricating flexible 3D textile electrode platforms. These textile structures may be readily integrated with electroactive electrodes that can potentially carry out electrochemical detection in wearable devices. Here we demonstrate that conductive fibre or yarn-based electrodes can be readily incorporated into knitted and braided textile structures for electrochemical detection. Due to the poor nature of these commodity-based conducting yarns and fibres surface modification utilising electrodeposition of conducting polypyrrole and or gold nanoparticles was demonstrated to enhance the device performance.