{"title":"Study on conductive yarn-integrated knitted heating textiles with various wearability functions","authors":"Sandeep Kumar Maurya, Shubham Singh, Apurba Das, Nandan Kumar, Bipin Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s10854-024-14174-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Wearable heating textiles are increasingly popular for thermotherapy applications; however, ensuring their durability and comfort presents a significant challenge in design and material selection. Herein, rib-knitted heating fabrics were modified in the active regions by adjusting knitting structural parameters, including knit, float, and tuck stitches. Four sample types were fabricated: 3R (three courses of knit), 3F (three courses of float), 3 T (three courses of tuck), and FTF (first-course float, second-course tuck, third-course float), using stainless steel and cotton yarns. The durability and comfort properties of these knitted heating textiles, tailored for wearable heating textiles, were evaluated. The 3F sample exhibited the highest thermal resistance, air permeability, and water vapor permeability due to its structural characteristics. Moreover, after six washing cycles, surface temperature reductions of 10.31% (3R), 12.21% (3 T), 8.85% (3F), and 9.12% (FTF) were recorded. Bending cycles, perspiration, and detergent exposure showed no notable effects. However, in the 3 T structure, loosely bound fibers resulted in significant fiber breakage, leading to an 8.92% temperature change following 5000 abrasion cycles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics","volume":"36 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10854-024-14174-z","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Wearable heating textiles are increasingly popular for thermotherapy applications; however, ensuring their durability and comfort presents a significant challenge in design and material selection. Herein, rib-knitted heating fabrics were modified in the active regions by adjusting knitting structural parameters, including knit, float, and tuck stitches. Four sample types were fabricated: 3R (three courses of knit), 3F (three courses of float), 3 T (three courses of tuck), and FTF (first-course float, second-course tuck, third-course float), using stainless steel and cotton yarns. The durability and comfort properties of these knitted heating textiles, tailored for wearable heating textiles, were evaluated. The 3F sample exhibited the highest thermal resistance, air permeability, and water vapor permeability due to its structural characteristics. Moreover, after six washing cycles, surface temperature reductions of 10.31% (3R), 12.21% (3 T), 8.85% (3F), and 9.12% (FTF) were recorded. Bending cycles, perspiration, and detergent exposure showed no notable effects. However, in the 3 T structure, loosely bound fibers resulted in significant fiber breakage, leading to an 8.92% temperature change following 5000 abrasion cycles.
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The Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics is an established refereed companion to the Journal of Materials Science. It publishes papers on materials and their applications in modern electronics, covering the ground between fundamental science, such as semiconductor physics, and work concerned specifically with applications. It explores the growth and preparation of new materials, as well as their processing, fabrication, bonding and encapsulation, together with the reliability, failure analysis, quality assurance and characterization related to the whole range of applications in electronics. The Journal presents papers in newly developing fields such as low dimensional structures and devices, optoelectronics including III-V compounds, glasses and linear/non-linear crystal materials and lasers, high Tc superconductors, conducting polymers, thick film materials and new contact technologies, as well as the established electronics device and circuit materials.