Wearable electronics have an array of potential uses from fashion to monitoring health, but washing them is far from straightforward. This prompted scientists in South Korea to return to a millennia old drawing board, where they discovered that calligraphy ink might solve the problem.
Interested in finding out more? The fully story can be read in Chemistry World.
The original article can be read below:
Calligraphic ink enabling washable conductive textile electrodes for supercapacitors
Do Van Lam, Kyungmin Jo, Chang-Hyun Kim, Sejeong Won, Yun Hwangbo, Jae-Hyun Kim, Hak-Joo Lee and Seung-Mo Lee*
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6TA01341D