Electrochemical Deposition of Conductive Polymers on Fabrics

The development of wearable technology has promoted the research new power supply sources to feed devices without need batteries. Wearable thermoelectric generators (wTEGs) can generate energy using thermal gradient between human body and ambient temperature. most comfortable way adapt wTEGs is by textiles, which are flexible breathable. In this work, we have developed a method coat textiles with conductive polymers electrodeposition on fabrics previously coated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT). results show that polyaniline: sulfuric acid (PANI:H2SO4) present very low stability, variation electrical conductivity under stress not suitable for their use in smart textiles. However, poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene: perchlorate) (PEDOT:ClO4) polypyrrole: perchlorate (PPy:ClO4) good positive evolution as function twist angle, bending cycles, radius, demostrating potential practical applications electrochemical deposition.