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Light-emitting fabrics

Nature Photonics volume 9, pages 211–212 (2015)Cite this article

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Light-emitting fibres that suit integration with textiles are prepared by dip-coating a steel wire with an electroluminescent material and then cleverly wrapping the structure with a carbon nanotube sheet that functions as a transparent electrode.

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Figure 1: Enlarged cross-section of the light-emitting fibre.
Figure 2: Prototype of the light-emitting fibre.

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  1. Enrique Ortí and Henk J. Bolink are at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular of the Universidad de Valencia C/Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980 Paterna, Spain,

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Ortí, E., Bolink, H. Light-emitting fabrics. Nature Photon 9, 211–212 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.53

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