Piezoresistive Fabric Produced Through PVDF-Graphene Nanocomposite Film Incorporation in Textile Via Screen Printing Technique

A fabric sensing element has been produced by incorporating a nanocomposite film in a commercial textile via screen printing technique. The nanocomposite is a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) loaded with 3% wt of graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) and it has been morphologically characterized. The piezoresistive properties of the resulting fabric sensing element have been investigated under quasi static tensile loadings.