Spinning of Stiff and Conductive Filaments from Cellulose Nanofibrils and PEDOT:PSS NanocomplexesShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, ISSN 2637-6105, Vol. 4, no 6, p. 4119-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Research in smart textiles is growing due to the increased demand from the healthcare sector and people's urge to keep track of and analyze the signals and metrics from their bodies. Electrically conductive filaments are the most fundamental material for smart textiles. These filaments can be imbued with functionalities and useful in fields like energy storage, sensing, and actuation. To be able to meet the requirements that the latter applications require, fabrication techniques must be developed to provide better processability and sustainability in a cost-effective manner. Here, a mixture of a conductive polymer, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT), and biobased cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) was used to spin filaments utilizing a water-based process. These filaments show electrical conductivities up to 150 S/cm and tensile stiffness of 20 GPa. Interestingly, the PEDOT aligned to a similar degree as the CNFs during the spinning process without a drawing step, which is hypothesized to be caused by the attachment of PEDOT on the CNFs. Lastly, the filaments were tested in an organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) configuration, which resulted in a working device with an on/off ratio approaching 1500. Furthermore, the OECT exhibited stable behavior when changing temperature (20-80 °C) and relative humidity (40-80%). This aqueous spinning method, resulting in filaments with robust electronic properties in different temperature and humidity environments, show greats promise for future innovative smart textiles.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society , 2022. Vol. 4, no 6, p. 4119-
Keywords [en]
cellulose nanofibrils, filament, PEDOT:PSS, smart textile, spinning, water-based, Conducting polymers, Cost effectiveness, Electronic properties, Nanocellulose, Smart textiles, Spinning (fibers), Conductive filaments, Ethylenedioxythiophenes, Healthcare sectors, Nanocomplexes, Organic electrochemical transistors, Poly(3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene):PSS, Water based, Nanofibers
National Category
Materials Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-59766DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.2c00073Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85131674019OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-59766DiVA, id: diva2:1682197
Note
This work was funded by the Swedish Foundation for StrategicResearch (GMT14-0058) and the Digital Cellulose Center(2016−05193), a competence center set up by the SwedishInnovation Agency VINNOVA and a consortium of Swedishforest industries. L.W. also acknowledges the financial supportfrom the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Research Foundation viathe Wallenberg Wood Science Centre (WWSC).
2022-07-082022-07-082023-12-06Bibliographically approved