{"id":178040,"date":"2023-12-11T13:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-conductive-cotton-based-fiber-developed-for-smart-textiles"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:23:54","slug":"new-conductive-cotton-based-fiber-developed-for-smart-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-conductive-cotton-based-fiber-developed-for-smart-textiles","title":{"rendered":"New conductive, cotton-based fiber developed for smart textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-conductive-cotton-based-fiber-developed-for-smart-textiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single strand of fiber developed at Washington State University has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of a polymer, called polyaniline.<\/p>\n<p>The newly developed material showed good potential for wearable e-textiles. The WSU researchers tested the fibers with a system that powered an LED light and another that sensed ammonia gas, detailing their findings in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0144861723007737\">journal <i>Carbohydrate Polymers<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have one fiber in two sections: one section is the conventional cotton: flexible and strong enough for everyday use, and the other side is the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/conductive+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">conductive material<\/a>,\u201d said Hang Liu, WSU textile researcher and the study\u2019s corresponding author. \u201cThe cotton can support the conductive material which can provide the needed function.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single strand of fiber developed at Washington State University has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of a polymer, called polyaniline. The newly developed material showed good potential for wearable e-textiles. The WSU researchers tested the fibers with a system that powered an LED light and another that sensed ammonia gas, detailing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}