A novel breathable flexible metallized fabric for wearable heating device with flame-retardant and antibacterial properties

Currently, there is an imperative demand for developing a novel flexible heater with high adhesion, breathability, and extreme condition resistance, such as ultra-high temperatures and even fire. Herein, a high-adhesion, flame-retardancy, and anti-bacteria copper nanoparticles networks/nylon 6 woven...
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Currently, there is an imperative demand for developing a novel flexible heater with high adhesion, breathability, and extreme condition resistance, such as ultra-high temperatures and even fire. Herein, a high-adhesion, flame-retardancy, and anti-bacteria copper nanoparticles networks/nylon 6 woven fabric (CNNs/NWF) wearable heater with a “sandwich-like” structure has been designed and fabricated based on phatic acid/aminopropyltriethoxysilane (PA/APTES) hybrid coating. On the one hand, the CNNs/NWF wearable heater exhibited superb electrothermal behavior working at a peak temperature of 208.8 °C powered with 2.0 V, better than that of wearable heaters in the recently reported literature. On the other hand, the vertical burning test showed that the heater possesses splendid flame retardancy. Furthermore, the PA/APTES coating could deposit a nanoscale porous protective film on the surface of CNNs/NWF, which imparts the heater with relatively excellent oxidation resistance and breathability. In addition, the antibacterial efficiency against Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) still reached 100% after 50 times of standard washing and being electrified at 2.0 V for 5 min, keeping humans away from the threat of bacterial infections. We think that the heater in this research could be extended to wearable heating devices. Ausführliche Beschreibung