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Metallizing insulating textile yarns can create flexibility to embed conductive patterns in textile products. However, fabricating a conductive yarn with keeping its inherent soft material’s properties in a scalable manufacturing process is very challenging. In this paper, we present a simple, yet effective multilayered deposition process of the coating conductive silver particle on cotton yarn to impart electrical conductivity. The process includes sequential dip coating and drying process of raw cotton yarn in the silver salt and reducing agent solutions. The result shows that repeating a similar process can enhance the electrical conductivity of the yarn and the resistance can get down up to 30 Ω/inch after 7 consecutive cycles of the coating process. The SEM image shows that the particle aggregates on top of each other and clusters around the fiber. The conductive fabric may withstand up to ten agitated washing cycles. The resistance of the sample steadily increased as a result of washing, bending, and elongation. The stiffness value of conductive fabric was greater while the air permeability value was lower compared to raw cotton fabric due to the deposition of metallic particles on the fabric surface.
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Islam, M.M., Ahmed, D.M. & Shahariar, H. An approach to develop electrically conductive cotton yarn by facile multilayered deposition of silver particles. emergent mater. 6, 1027–1036 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-023-00505-z
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