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Optimized preparation of electrically conductive cotton fabric by an industrialized exhaustion dyeing with reduced graphene oxide

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Cotton woven fabrics were first dyed with a graphene oxide (GO) aqueous dispersion using a simple industrialized exhaustion dyeing process. The resulting fabrics were then chemically reduced to prepare the electrically conductive cotton fabrics. They were characterized by the FE-SEM, XPS and Raman spectrum and evaluated with respect to whiteness, electrical surface resistance and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Some factors affecting the process such as the GO concentration, dyeing and reducing conditions, and nature and concentration of the reducing agent were also investigated. The results indicated that GO could be fixed on cotton fabric by a simple exhaustion dyeing process and converted into the reduced GO (RGO) with a reducing agent. Increasing the GO concentration or dyeing temperature and time decreased the whiteness and electrical surface resistance of the RGO-dyed fabric. However, higher pH showed a reverse effect. Na2S2O4 was found to be a stronger reducing agent for the conversation of GO into RGO on cotton fabric than ascorbic acid and thiourea. The reduction of GO-dyed fabric was easily completed by an increasing Na2S2O4 concentration at higher temperature. Moreover, an increasing number of dyeing cycles decreased the surface resistance and impedance modulus and increased the abrasion resistance of the RGO-dyed cotton fabric.

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The authors thank the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Committee for a Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology (11JCZDJ24600). This research was also supported in part by the Innovation and Pioneering Talents Plan of Jiangsu Province (2015–2026) and Shaoxing Public-benefit Project (2014B70006).

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  1. Division of Textile Chemistry and Ecology, School of Textiles, Tianjin Polytechnic University, 399 Bingshui West Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin, 300387, People’s Republic of China

    Weifeng Shen, Yongchun Dong, Guixin Cui & Bing Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Composites, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, 300387, People’s Republic of China

    Yongchun Dong

  3. Jiangnan Branch, China Textile Academy, Shaoxing, 312071, People’s Republic of China

    Guixin Cui

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Shen, W., Dong, Y., Cui, G. et al. Optimized preparation of electrically conductive cotton fabric by an industrialized exhaustion dyeing with reduced graphene oxide. Cellulose 23, 3291–3300 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-016-1006-y

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