E-Textile can be combined with traditional textile methods like sewing, weaving, and knitting. Industry produces the majority of these conductive materials for anti-static and EMF shielding reasons. Actually excellent conductive is also one of its major property.

What is conductive material?

The common used conductive material for E-textile is metallic fabric. Material made from, coated or blended with conductive metals including but not limited to gold, carbon, titanium, nickel, silver, or copper. Base fabric materials include cotton, wool, polyester, and nylon. Conductive material fibers are widely used in products ranging from metal mesh, aerospace textiles, taser or stun gun vests, conductive threads or yarns, fabric sheets used for thermal heating, etc.

Conductive fabrics can also be used to conduct electricity in small spaces, for static dissipation, EMI shielding, signal and power transfer in low resistance versions, and in heating elements in higher resistance versions, in medical equipment like electrodes, therefore it is the key component for E-textile.

General description

This structure is conductive fabric fiber yarn fabric surface of each root metal structure. Each root using the metal thin film formed on the fibers, the fibers can be characterized in the use under, endowed with characteristics of the metal. If the film laminate, resin coating technique, is not the whole of the conductive fabric, but also damaged the softness deposition, sputtering and other gas-based treatment in only one treatment, although they could form a metal film , but it is difficult to conductivity of the fabric, and a low level of electrical conductivity. Complex shapes with tactile metal fiber fabric treatment to non-electrolytic plating solution-based processing approach is the best method. Electroless plating using the adhesiveness of the metal film on the fibers of the compound treatment, the metal foil can be obtained, and the same conductivity. Conductive fabric technology currently virtuous average resistance value 0.03Ω / sq.in (Contact Resistance). The use of metal complexes can be endowed with fibers having electromagnetic shielding performance. Fiber or plastic on the electromagnetic wave, the system is a transparent material, the electromagnetic radiation will penetrate the material, but the use of metal-based electromagnetic wave impedance of the interface inconsistencies with the mirror like reflection of light in nature. Such electromagnetic wave shielding property is represented by a metal conductive material have the features, mostly of a 40dB (shielding rate of 99%) ~ 100dB (shielding rate of 99.999%) performance.

SENKO MATERIAL manufacutre its patented silver-plate fabric and other form of faraday faraday. Average electric resitance of 10cm material range from 0.3 miliohm to 200 Ohm, U-SILVER ® faraday conductive fabric has become a powerful tool for e-textile component set up.

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