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Approach to Engineering the Temperature Sensing E-textile: A Lightweight Thermistor as an Active Sensing Element

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In this paper, we describe an approach to fabricating conductive textiles with temperature sensing capability. The key point of our approach is in combining electronic properties of a molecular organic semiconductor with clothing. A polycarbonate film covered with organic molecular semiconductor was used as the temperature measurement element. To minimize the electrical response of the developed bi layer thermistor to deformations, the thermistor was attached to a rigid film-like platform specifically fabricated in the textile by its local melting. Our study shows that the developed platform enables engineering of the conductive fabric the electrical resistance of which exclusively responded to temperature changes. Such e-textiles may be easily prepared using a simple fabrication procedure and, therefore, they are compatible with conductive sensing fabrics prepared by printing techniques. The developed organic thermistor, being cheap, lightweight and biocompatible, is highly attractive for applications in wearable biomedical technology.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, through “Acciones CIBER.” The Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), an initiative funded by theVINational R&D&I Plan 2008–2011, Iniciativa Ingenio 2010, Consolider Program, CIBER Actions and financed by the Instituto de Salud Carlos IIIwith assistance from the European Regional Development Fund. The authors also appreciate the financial support through the projects: BE-WELL (CTQ2013–40480-R) granted by DGI (Spain), and GenCat (2014-SGR-17) financed by DGR (Catalunya), the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research under contracts FP7-OCEAN-2013-614155, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation Grant RFMEFI57714X0133.

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  1. Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Victor Lebedev, Elena Laukhina, Vladimir Laukhin, Concepcio Rovira & Jaume Veciana

  2. CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

    Elena Laukhina, Vladimir Laukhin, Concepcio Rovira & Jaume Veciana

  3. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

    Vladimir Laukhin

  4. CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

    Andrey Somov

  5. ‘MATI’-Russian State Technological University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Baranov

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Lebedev, V. et al. (2016). Approach to Engineering the Temperature Sensing E-textile: A Lightweight Thermistor as an Active Sensing Element. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 170. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47075-7_27

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