Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 1, 226(2023)

Temperature-Arousing Self-Powered Fire Warning E-Textile Based on p–n Segment Coaxial Aerogel Fibers for Active Fire Protection in Firefighting Clothing

Hualing He1...2,†, Yi Qin1,†, Zhenyu Zhu1, Qing Jiang1, Shengnan Ouyang2, Yuhang Wan1, Xueru Qu1, Jie Xu1, and Zhicai Yu1,23,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, People’s Republic of China
  • 2National Local Joint Laboratory for Advanced Textile Processing and Clean Production, Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass Fibers and Eco-Dyeing and Finishing, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Jiangsu New Horizon Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center Co., Ltd., Suzhou 215000, People’s Republic of China
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    Firefighting protective clothing is a crucial protective equipment for firefighters to minimize skin burn and ensure safety firefighting operation and rescue mission. A recent increasing concern is to develop self-powered fire warning materials that can be incorporated into the firefighting clothing to achieve active fire protection for firefighters before the protective clothing catches fire on fireground. However, it is still a challenge to facilely design and manufacture thermoelectric (TE) textile (TET)-based fire warning electronics with dynamic surface conformability and breathability. Here, we develop an alternate coaxial wet-spinning strategy to continuously produce alternating p/n-type TE aerogel fibers involving n-type Ti3C2Tx MXene and p-type MXene/SWCNT-COOH as core materials, and tough aramid nanofiber as protective shell, which simultaneously ensure the flexibility and high-efficiency TE power generation. With such alternating p/n-type TE fibers, TET-based self-powered fire warning sensors with high mechanical stability and wearability are successfully fabricated through stitching the alternating p–n segment TE fibers into aramid fabric. The results indicate that TET-based fire warning electronics containing 50 p–n pairs produce the open-circuit voltage of 7.5 mV with a power density of 119.79 nW cm-2 at a temperature difference of 300 °C. The output voltage signal is then calculated as corresponding surface temperature of firefighting clothing based on a linear relationship between TE voltage and temperature. The fire alarm response time and flame-retardant properties are further displayed. Such self-powered fire warning electronics are true textiles that offer breathability and compatibility with body movement, demonstrating their potential application in firefighting clothing.

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    Hualing He, Yi Qin, Zhenyu Zhu, Qing Jiang, Shengnan Ouyang, Yuhang Wan, Xueru Qu, Jie Xu, Zhicai Yu. Temperature-Arousing Self-Powered Fire Warning E-Textile Based on p–n Segment Coaxial Aerogel Fibers for Active Fire Protection in Firefighting Clothing[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 226

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jun. 30, 2023

    Accepted: Aug. 31, 2023

    Published Online: Dec. 15, 2023

    The Author Email: Yu Zhicai (yuzhicaicai@163.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01200-8

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