Comprehensive performance characterization of conductive fabric made of reduced graphene oxide (rGO)

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In this study, the production and comprehensive characterization of graphene based electrically conductive textile products, which will allow lower processing costs, such as, low temperature and short process times, and known textile production processes without losing their flexibility, lightness, permeability, and washability characteristics of textile products. Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was applied with a single step process by impregnation to woven fabrics and various properties of fabrics related to performance and comfort were analyzed besides electrical conductivity. The results obtained in the study have shown that it is possible to produce flexible and soft conductive textiles with low resistance values below 100 kΩ, resistant to mechanical deformations, such as, bending, rubbing, and stretching (cyclic test). In addition, the findings indicated that the fabrics applied rGO with the one‐step production process will provide significant advantages to the electronic textile market in terms of wearability, cost‐effectiveness, and applicable processes.
In this study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was synthesized with a single step process instead of two‐step processes to ensure simple, easy‐to‐apply process and industrial applicability. rGO nanosuspension was applied by impregnation method to fabric samples. The results indicated that one‐step graphene application method without the requirement of drying process at high temperatures has provided to produce washable, stretchable, bendable, flexible and soft conductive textiles with resistance values below 100 kΩ after repeated rGO impregnations.