Advanced Fiber Materials, Volume. 6, Issue 5, 00416(2024)

Durable and Wearable Self-powered Temperature Sensor Based on Self-healing Thermoelectric Fiber by Coaxial Wet Spinning Strategy for Fire Safety of Firefighting Clothing

Qing Jiang1, Yuhang Wan1, Yi Qin1, Xueru Qu1, Mi Zhou1, Siqi Huo2, Xiaochun Wang3, Zhicai Yu1、*, and Hualing He1、**
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies, Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass Fibers and Eco-dyeing & Finishing, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China
  • 2Centre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield Central 4300, Australia
  • 3School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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    Self-healable electronics with self-recoverable mechanical properties show a lot of potential in improving the reliability and durability of wearable electronic devices, but it is still challenging. Herein, a self-healing core-sheath thermoelectric (TE) fiber-based temperature sensor was continuously fabricated by coaxial wet-spinning strategy, whose core layer and sheath layer are, respectively, pure Ti3C2Tx MXene and self-healing silk sericin (SS)/oxide sodium alginate (OSA) composite. The prepared SS/OSA@MXene core-sheath TE fiber exhibits accurate temperature-sensing at 200–400 °C based on a linear relationship between TE voltage and temperature difference. The core-sheath TE fiber that can be integrated into firefighting clothing and timely alert firefighters to evacuate from the fire before the protective clothing becomes damaged. When exposed to flames, SS/OSA@MXene can rapidly trigger a high-temperature warning voltage of 3.36 mV within 1.17 s and exhibit reversible high-temperature alarm performance. In addition, the fractured SS/OSA@MXene can restore up to 89.12% of its original strain limit at room temperature because of the robust yet reversible dynamic covalent bonds between SS and OSA. In this study, an ingenious strategy for developing a durable and wearable TE fiber-based self-powered temperature sensor was proposed. This strategy has promising application prospects in real-time temperature detection of firefighting clothing to ensure the safety of firefighters operating on a fire scene.

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    Qing Jiang, Yuhang Wan, Yi Qin, Xueru Qu, Mi Zhou, Siqi Huo, Xiaochun Wang, Zhicai Yu, Hualing He. Durable and Wearable Self-powered Temperature Sensor Based on Self-healing Thermoelectric Fiber by Coaxial Wet Spinning Strategy for Fire Safety of Firefighting Clothing[J]. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2024, 6(5): 00416

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Dec. 22, 2023

    Accepted: Apr. 1, 2024

    Published Online: Nov. 14, 2024

    The Author Email: Zhicai Yu (yuzhicaicai@163.com), Hualing He (hehualinghe@126.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s42765-024-00416-6

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