Life Cycle Inventory Analysis for Conductive Textile Based on Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces

In this work, we present some aspects regarding the life cycle inventory for textile surfaces with hydrophobic character required by conductive textiles with different surface resistance. There is already a few researches that deals with the aspects of conductive property influenced by hydrophobic or hydrophilic substrate, such as perfluorodecyltriethoxysilane to increase the durability of electrically conductive fabric obtained by polypyrolle treatment. In this paper, we investigated the life cycle inventory of the processes involved in obtaining the conductive textile using a hydrophobic substrate obtained by classical technology (padding/ coating) or advanced RF plasma technology (plasma hydrophobization/coating).