Research of Properties of Electric Conducting Fibers and Threads for Production of Materials Screening Electromagnetic Radiation
The article is devoted to the development and research of the properties of metallized conductive threads used for the manufacture of materials shielding high-voltage electric fields, used in special clothes for workers in the fuel and energy industry. The ECN fiber is obtained by the metallization of synthetic fiber nitron, which is subjected to a two-stage chemical-galvanic metallization on a specially designed installation. As a result, about 17% of nickel metal is deposited on the fiber, and it acquires a sufficiently high electrical conductivity. It has been established that the processed fiber fully retains its physical-mechanical properties (strength and elongation), due to which it can be easily processed on serial textile equipment mixed with other fibers.