Screen Printing Carbon Nanotubes Textiles Antennas for Smart Wearables

Electronic textiles have become a dynamic research field in recent decades, attracting attention to smart wearables develop and integrate electronic devices onto clothing. Combining traditional screen-printing techniques with novel nanocarbon-based inks offers seamless integration of flexible conformal antenna patterns fabric substrates minimum weight penalty haptic disruption. In this study, two different fabric-based designs called PICA LOOP were fabricated through scalable process by tuning the conductive ink formulations accompanied cellulose nanocrystals. The printing was controlled monitored revealing relationship between textiles’ nature conducting nano-ink. prototypes tested environments mimicking complex real-life situations, such as being proximity human body, affected wrinkling, bending, care washing or ironing. Both computational experimental on-and-off-body gain results acknowledged potential tunable material systems complimenting for sensing technology plausible pathway future wearables.