Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 15, Issue 3, 12200(2022)

Flexible thermochromic fabrics enabling dynamic colored display

Pan Li1, Zhihui Sun1, Rui Wang1,2, Yuchen Gong2, Yingting Zhou2, Yuwei Wang1, Xiaojuan Liu3, Xianjun Zhou1, Ju Ouyang1, Mingzhi Chen3, Chong Hou1,4, Min Chen1,2, and Guangming Tao1,3、*
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  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and Sport and Health Initiative, Optical Valley Laboratory, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 4School of Optics and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Color-changeable fibers can provide diverse functions for intelligent wearable devices such as novel information displays and human–machine interfaces when woven into fabric. This work develops a low-cost, effective, and scalable strategy to produce thermochromic fibers by wet spinning. Through a combination of different thermochromic microcapsules, flexible fibers with abundant and reversible color changes are obtained. These color changes can be clearly observed by the naked eye. It is also found that the fibers exhibit excellent color-changing stability even after 8000 thermal cycles. Moreover, the thermochromic fibers can be fabricated on a large scale and easily woven or implanted into various fabrics with good mechanical performance. Driven by their good mechanical and physical characteristics, applications of thermochromic fibers in dynamic colored display are demonstrated. Dynamic quick response (QR) code display and recognition are successfully realized with thermochromic fabrics. This work well confirms the potential applications of thermochromic fibers in smart textiles, wearable devices, flexible displays, and human–machine interfaces.

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    Pan Li, Zhihui Sun, Rui Wang, Yuchen Gong, Yingting Zhou, Yuwei Wang, Xiaojuan Liu, Xianjun Zhou, Ju Ouyang, Mingzhi Chen, Chong Hou, Min Chen, Guangming Tao. Flexible thermochromic fabrics enabling dynamic colored display[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2022, 15(3): 12200

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Apr. 26, 2022

    Accepted: Jun. 14, 2022

    Published Online: Jan. 21, 2023

    The Author Email: Tao Guangming (tao@hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-022-00042-3

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