title: Cotton Fabric Coated with Conducting Polymers and its Application in Monitoring of Carnivorous Plant Response.
abstract: The paper describes the electrical plant response to mechanical stimulation monitored with the help of conducting polymers deposited on cotton fabric. Cotton fabric was coated with conducting polymers, polyaniline or polypyrrole, in situ during the oxidation of respective monomers in aqueous medium. Thus, modified fabrics were again coated with polypyrrole or polyaniline, respectively, in order to investigate any synergetic effect between both polymers with respect to conductivity and its stability during repeated dry cleaning. The coating was confirmed by infrared spectroscopy. The resulting fabrics have been used as electrodes to collect the electrical response to the stimulation of a Venus flytrap plant. This is a paradigm of the use of conducting polymers in monitoring of plant neurobiology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 708 33 Ostrava, Czech Republic. vaclav.bajgar.st@vsb.cz.
authors.forename: Václav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bajgar
authors.affiliation: Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 708 33 Ostrava, Czech Republic. marek.penhaker@vsb.cz.
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Penhaker
authors.affiliation: Inotex Ltd, 544 01 Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic. martinkova@inotex.cz.
authors.forename: Lenka
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martinková
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacky University in Olomouc, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic. andrej.pavlovic@upol.cz.
authors.forename: Andrej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pavlovič
authors.affiliation: Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic. bober@imc.cas.cz.
authors.forename: Patrycja
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bober
authors.affiliation: Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic. trchova@imc.cas.cz.
authors.forename: Miroslava
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trchová
authors.affiliation: Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic. stejskal@imc.cas.cz.
authors.forename: Jaroslav
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stejskal
keywords: Venus flytrap; conducting polymers; plant neurobiology; polyaniline; polypyrrole