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Conductive Yarns, Fabrics, and Coatings

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Conductive textiles are nowadays used in a broad variety of applications in the area of smart textiles, starting from data and energy transfer lines to textile sensors to shielding of electromagnetic waves. They are necessary in textile capacitors, batteries, solar cells, and electroluminescent systems.

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  1. Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

    Andrea Ehrmann

  2. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Tomasz Blachowicz

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Ehrmann, A., Blachowicz, T. (2017). Conductive Yarns, Fabrics, and Coatings. In: Examination of Textiles with Mathematical and Physical Methods. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47408-3_2

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