Printed Functional Applications: Batteries, Communication Elements, Antennas and Conductive Paths on Technical Textiles

Abstract

Today various applications are designed to make life much easier for the consumer. For example you want to be accessible always and everywhere, and detect many parameters of your own body functions, not only in the medical field, but also in the leisure area. In times when fitness and healthiness is getting higher and higher, with dozens of apps which recognize if I slept well, drank enough, or my sport unit is effective, we have to think about an easy and undisturbing way to collect those data and send them for example to our smartphone or computer. With printed functional applications we are able to collect those data without disturbing the consumer, because they are light weighted and flexible. In the medical field as well, non-perceptible sensors and functional applications are as desirable as possible to affect patients. The more common the patient feels, despite monitored by sensors, the faster he will recover and, for example, be discharged from the hospital. This reduction in the period of illness allows an immense reduction in the incidence of the illness and examination costs.