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Electrothermochromic paper fabricated by depositing polypyrrole on one side

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Paper with color changes caused by applied electric voltages was fabricated by combining the electric heating feature of conductive polypyrrole (PPy) and the temperature response color-changing feature of thermochromic ink. Highly conductive PPy was deposited selectively on the graphite-coated side of the paper via electrochemical polymerization. Thermochromic ink was coated on the reverse side with white color. The conductive coatings were tightly covered on the paper due to the hydrogen bonding between the pyrrole rings and the hydroxyl groups of cellulose. The obtained paper could be heated to about 45 °C and change its color significantly under an applied voltage of 4 V.

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Acknowledgments

This work was sponsored by the Scientific Innovation Team Project of the Education Department of Hubei Province (no. T201507), Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau (no. 2016010101010016) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (no. 2016YFA0101102).

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  1. College of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base for New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technology, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, 430200, China

    Chengzhuo Wei, Weida Rao, Zikui Bai, Weilin Xu, Haifeng Bao & Jie Xu

  2. College of Textile Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, 430200, China

    Lingling Fan & Weilin Xu

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Wei, C., Fan, L., Rao, W. et al. Electrothermochromic paper fabricated by depositing polypyrrole on one side. Cellulose 24, 5187–5196 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-017-1481-9

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