The study of manufacture conductive yarn


Abstract in English

The majority of known polymer materials are electrically insulating. But there are some of polymers are intrinsically conducting in nature, However, it is lacking in process ability, and the scope for manipulation of electrical and mechanical properties is limited. The method which used to solve this problem is an addition of a conductive metal filament into a polymer filament yarn. Which can be directly integrated into a textile, or can be knitted. So we made a device able to produce this kind of conductive yarns which depends on melt spinning technique but with the elimination of necessary pressure for extrusion. And we were able to produce samples of copper filament coated with polymeric material (low density polyethylene).

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