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  • Graphene-enabled adaptive infrared textiles

Ergoktas, M. Said, Bakan, Gokhan, Steiner, Pietro, Bartlam, Cian, Malevich, Yury, Ozden Yenigun, Elif, He, Guanliang, Karim, Nazmul, Cataldi, Pietro, Bissett, Mark A., Kinloch, Ian A., Novoselov, Kostya S. and Kocabas, Coskun, 2020, Journal Article, Graphene-enabled adaptive infrared textiles Nano Letters, 20 (7). pp. 5346-5352. ISSN 1530-6984

Abstract or Description:

Interactive clothing requires sensing and display functionalities to be embedded on textiles. Despite the significant progress of electronic textiles, the integration of optoelectronic materials on fabrics remains as an outstanding challenge. In this Letter, using the electro-optical tunability of graphene, we report adaptive optical textiles with electrically controlled reflectivity and emissivity covering the infrared and near-infrared wavelengths. We achieve electro-optical modulation by reversible intercalation of ions into graphene layers laminated on fabrics. We demonstrate a new class of infrared textile devices including display, yarn, and stretchable devices using natural and synthetic textiles. To show the promise of our approach, we fabricated an active device directly onto a t-shirt, which enables long-wavelength infrared communication via modulation of the thermal radiation from the human body. The results presented here provide complementary technologies which could leverage the ubiquitous use of functional textiles.

Subjects: Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies
School or Centre: School of Design
Funders: ERC [682723], EPSRC [EP/R513131/1], European Union H2020 [785219]
Identification Number or DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01694
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2020 15:32
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2021 13:47
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/4412
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