Wearable electronics have the potential to advance personalized health care, alleviate disability, enhance communication, and improve homeland security. Development of multifunctional electronic textiles (e-textiles) with the capacity to interact with the local environment is a promising strategy for achieving electronic transduction of physical and chemical information. This presentation highlights several simple and rapid approaches for fabricating multifunctional e-textiles by integrating and patterning conductive two-dimensional (2D) metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) into fabrics through direct solution-phase self-assembly from simple molecular building blocks. These e-textiles display reliable conductivity, enhanced porosity, flexibility, exceptional stability to washing and ability to transduce chemical stimuli in low-power, energy efficient electronic sensors. The functional utility of these integrated systems is demonstrated in the context of detection, uptake, and decontamination of toxic chemicals.

Self-assembled frameworks on textiles for simultaneous chemical detection, filtration, and detoxification

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