Removing nickel from nickel-coated carbon fibers

17th World Textile Conference AUTEX 2017 - Shaping the Future of Textiles

Hardianto, A.^1,2 ; Hertleer, C.^2 ; Mey, G De^3 ; Van Langenhove, L.^2

Polytechnic of Textile Technology (Politeknik STTT Bandung), Jalan Jakarta 31, Bandung

40272, Indonesia^1

Ghent University, Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering, Technologiepark 907, Zwijnaarde

9052, Belgium^2

Ghent University, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Technologiepark 15, Zwijnaarde

9052, Belgium^3

关键词: Conductive fibers;    Conductive textiles;    Electrically conductive;    Nickel-coated carbon fiber;    Temperature dependent;    Textile products;    Textile structures;    Thermo-electric generators;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/254/7/072010/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/254/7/072010

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Conductive fibers/yarns are one of the most important materials for smart textiles because of their electrically conductive functionality combined with flexibility and light weight. They can be applied in many fields such as the medical sector, electronics, sensors and even as thermoelectric generators. Temperature sensors, for example, can be made using the thermocouple or thermopile principle which usually uses two different metal wires that can produce a temperature-dependent voltage. However, if metal wires are inserted into a textile structure, they will decrease the flexibility properties of the textile product. Nickel-coated Carbon Fiber (NiCF), a conductive textile yarn, has a potential use as a textile-based thermopile if we can create an alternating region of carbon and nickel along the fiber which in turn it can be used for substituting the metallic thermopile. The idea was to remove nickel from NiCF in order to obtain a yarn that contains alternating zones of carbon and nickel. Due to no literature reporting on how to remove nickel from NiCF, in this paper we investigated some chemicals to remove nickel from NiCF.