Method for making electrically conductive textile materials

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Fabrics are made electrically conductive by contacting the fiber under agitation conditions with an aqueous solution of an aniline compound oxidizing agent and a doping agent or counter ion and then depositing onto the surface of individual fibers of the fabric a prepolymer of the aniline compound so as to uniformly and coherently cover the fibers with a conductive film of the polymerized aniline compound and wherein furthermore, the oxidizing agent is a vanadyl compound whereby the reaction rate is controlled such that the prepolymer is uniformly and coherently adsorbed onto the surface of the textile material thereby providing, improved films of electrically conductive polymerized …