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Wearable solid-state capacitors based on two-dimensional material all-textile heterostructures.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Qiang, Siyu 
Arbab, Adrees 
Song, Weihua 

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a rapidly growing area of interest for wearable electronics, due to their flexible and unique electrical properties. All-textile-based wearable electronic components are key to enable future wearable electronics. Single component electrical elements have been demonstrated; however heterostructure-based assemblies, combining electrically conductive and dielectric textiles such as all-textile capacitors are currently missing. Here we demonstrate a superhydrophobic conducting fabric with a sheet resistance Rs∼ 2.16 kΩ□-1, and a pinhole-free dielectric fabric with a relative permittivity εr∼ 2.35 enabled by graphene and hexagonal boron nitride inks, respectively. The different fabrics are then integrated to engineer the first example of an all-textile-based capacitive heterostructure with an effective capacitance C ∼ 26 pF cm-2 and a flexibility of ∼1 cm bending radius. The capacitor sustains 20 cycles of repeated washing and more than 100 cycles of repeated bending. Finally, an AC low-pass filter with a cut-off frequency of ∼15 kHz is integrated by combining the conductive polyester and the capacitor. These results pave the way toward all-textile vertically integrated electronic devices.

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Keywords

Boron Compounds, Electric Capacitance, Graphite, Nanostructures, Polyesters, Textiles, Wearable Electronic Devices

Journal Title

Nanoscale

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Journal ISSN

2040-3364
2040-3372

Volume Title

11

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

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Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L016087/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P02534X/1)
Royal Academy of Engineering National Natural Science Foundation of China Isaac Newton Trust Graduate Students Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province in China