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From: Electrical Switchability and Dry-Wash Durability of Conductive Textiles

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Schematic diagram of conductive textiles preparation by chemical grafting of PANI onto cotton fabrics.

Step 1: polymeric graft chains containing epoxy groups were connected to pristine cotton fabric by gamma ray irradiation-induced grafting polymerization of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA). Step 2: 4-aminophenethylamine (APA) is attached to the cotton-g-PGMA (i.e. PGC) fabric via an amino-epoxy ring cleavage reaction. Step 3: PANI is grafted onto APA functionalized PGC (i.e. APGC) fabric by in-situ redox polymerization of aniline.

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