PROJECTION OF SCIENCES ONTO TEXTILE AND FASHION:NANOTECHNOLOGY AND CHARGEABLE FABRIC EXAMPLE - PART II

Abstract

This proceeding is the second part of a previous work, which provides readers with an overview of our multidisciplinary approach to technical textile research. It reviews the recent results of the project aiming at developing supercapacitor fabric structures. The fundamental idea of the project is based on, production of graphene nano-sheets and their application onto fabrics, growing the oxides of manganese on graphene coating and utilization of the final fabric within a suitable electrolyte as electrode material. After sample fabric weaving and battery cell preparation are briefly introduced, cyclic voltammetry and electroimpedance spectroscopy characterization of the fabricated samples are summariazed. Simple test circuit design for the measurements, basic micro-controller firmware development as well as data quality monitoring software application for visualization purposes are also introduced. Finally, the measurement results with over 800 F/g capacitance for graphite are presented.