title: Knitted fabrics made from highly conductive stretchable fibers.
abstract: We report knitted fabrics made from highly conductive stretchable fibers. The maximum initial conductivity of fibers synthesized by wet spinning was 17460 S cm(-1) with a rupture tensile strain of 50%. The maximum strain could be increased to 490% by decreasing the conductivity to 236 S cm(-1). The knitted fabric was mechanically and electrically reversible up to 100% tensile strain when coated by poly(dimethylsiloxane). The normalized resistance of the poly(dimethylsiloxane)-coated fabric decreased to 0.65 at 100% strain.
authors.affiliation: IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute of Basic Science (IBS) , Daejeon, 305-701, Korea.
authors.forename: Rujun
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Jiyong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Dongmin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Hyungpil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Seunghyun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baik