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标题：Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications
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作者：Md Rashedul Islam ; Shaila Afroj ; Christopher Beach 等
期刊名称：iScience
印刷版ISSN：2589-0042
出版年度：2022
卷号：25
期号：3
页码：1-16
DOI：10.1016/j.isci.2022.103945
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：SummaryWearable 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.Graphical abstractDisplay OmittedHighlights•Graphene-based screen-printed conductive, flexible, and machine-washable e-textiles•Able to capture movements demonstrating their potential as activity sensors•In-plane all-solid-state printed textiles supercapacitor showing comparable performance•Perform as EEG bio-signal electrode comparable to current rigid clinical electrodesHealth technology; Materials science; Nanomaterials