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Fabrication of Organic Materials for Electronic Textiles

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Recent years have witnessed the possibility of realizing wearable electronic textiles as well as performance advances in electrical devices for incorporating high technology into daily garments. In the development of wearable electrical devices, conductive organic materials such as conducting polymers and carbon have emerged as the optimum materials for substituting conventional inorganic materials or metals. In this chapter, the efforts toward the development of high-performance conductive organic materials from their initial stages to date are described chronologically. A variety of methods for inserting electrical devices into fabric and surface treatment methods for enhancing the electrical properties of conductive organic materials are also discussed. Finally, conductive organic material-based sensors, transistors, light-emitting devices, actuators, solar cells, supercapacitors, and batteries were introduced as implementable wearable devices for electronic textiles.

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  1. Technical Textile and Materials R&BD Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, 426-910, South Korea

    Tae Hwan Lim

  2. Department of Organic and Nano Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-gu, Seoul, 133-791, South Korea

    Tae Hwan Lim & Seong Hun Kim

  3. Department of Fashion Design, Chung-Ang University, Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, 456-756, South Korea

    Kyung Wha Oh

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  1. Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR

    Xiaoming Tao

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Lim, T.H., Kim, S.H., Oh, K.W. (2014). Fabrication of Organic Materials for Electronic Textiles . In: Tao, X. (eds) Handbook of Smart Textiles. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-68-0_13-1

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