Advances in Electrically Conductive Textiles

Dr. Subhankar Maity is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Textile Technology in Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, India. He has more than 10 years of industrial, teaching and research experience. His current teaching areas are technical textiles; structure and properties of fibres; statistical quality control in textile industry; knitting technology, and fabric formation. His main research focuses on conductive polymer coated textiles; graphene-based textiles; MXene based electro-conductive textiles; heat transfer behaviour of fibrous/polymeric materials and related functional textiles. He has more than 50 publications and has edited and authored for leading refereed journals. Dr. Pintu Pandit is an Assistant Professor at the Textile Design Department of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India. He received his Ph. D (Tech.) degree in Fibres and Textile Processing Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology, India. He obtained the IEI Young Engineers Award in 2020 from the Institute of Engineers (India) and Young Educator & Scholars Award in 2021 from the NFED (India). He has several research, review, and book chapter publications for national and international Scopus indexed journals in the areas of: Best out of waste; sustainability in textile and fashion; low-cost sustainable markets; natural dyeing; multifunctional finishing; graphene; atmospheric plasma technology, and nanotechnology. He has edited books for numerous prestigious publishers, including Woodhead publications (Elsevier). He has also published a series of chapters on “Graphene as a Wonder Material” in the Journal of Textile Association (TAI). Dr. Saptarshi Maiti is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), India, after completing his post-doctoral research from ICT-Mumbai in 2022. He holds a PhD (Tech.) and M. Tech in Fibres and Textile Processing Technology from the Department of Fibres and Textile Processing Technology, ICT-Mumbai. His research areas include graphene and its applications in textiles; dendritic polymers; Protein extraction from waste resources; natural dyeing, and green processing of Textiles. He has to his credit more than 50 international publications and around 20 book chapters in the areas of textile chemistry and materials science and 1 patent. He has also published a series of chapters on “Graphene as a Wonder Material” in the Journal of Textile Association (TAI). Dr. Maiti has expertise in graphene and its applications in textiles. He is a Life member of The Indian Natural Fibre Society (INFS).

Section I: Introduction & Processing 1. Introduction to electroconductive textiles 2. Preparation of conductive polymer-coated textiles 3. Processing and preparation of graphene-based electroconductive textiles 4. MXene-based electroconductive textiles: synthesis to multidirectional applications 5. Green synthesis of graphene oxide using coconut shell extract for multifunctional cotton fabric 6. Conductive ink for printable wearable textile electronics Section II: Characterization 7. Electrical properties of textiles 8. Development of conductive polymer-coated textiles for heat generation 9. Development of wearable strain, pressure, and humidity sensors 10. Development of conductive polymer-coated textiles for pressure and strain sensors 11. Development of conductive textiles for electromagnetic shielding Section III: Applications 12. Shape memory applications of electroconductive textiles 13. Conductive polymer and its application in textile-based thermoelectric generators 14. Development of test methods of the efficiency, durability, and safety of Joule heating textiles 15. Antimicrobial efficacy of electroconductive textiles 16. Smart and interactive textiles 17. Wearable flexible energy storage devices 18. Textile electret filter media 19. Textile wearable antennas 20. Graphene-based textiles for electromagnetic interference shielding 21. Conductive floor covering 22. Triboelectric nanogenerator-based smart textiles 23. Sustainability in production and opportunities of electroconductive textiles