Table 1.

Summary of materials and their electric properties.

Structure of conductive textile	Material use to prepare or to coat on fibers	Merits of Conductive textiles	Technique used to fabricate conductive textile	Advantages of growth technique	Disadvantages of growth technique	Electrical property	Ref.
Polymer-based	Polypyrrole	Chemical and environment stable	Functional dopant induced process	Novel & Easy process, High Yield easily deposit on fabric surface	Need to optimize dopant concentration for better conductivity results	120–130 S/cm	[78]
	Polyaniline	Cost effective, stable	Wet Spinning	Produced fibers show high electronic and mechanical strength, fabricated thick fibers	Need to combine Individual fibers	140-750 S/cm	[79,80,81]
	PEDOT:PSS	Highly conductive good thermal and chemical stability	Dip Coating	Simple process	Coating is slow, tide lines can forms	0.4–2.0 S/cm	[68,82]
Carbon-based	Graphene	Highly conductive & stable, high strength	Electrostatic self-assembly with BSA followed by chemical reduction	Easy to attach graphene oxide films to textiles	Multistep process, wrinkles observed on surface of samples	10–20 S/cm	[83,84]
	Carbon nanotubes	Conductive, high mechanical strength	Wet spinning	Continuous long length (cm) CNT yarns	Slow processing	125–3000 S/cm	[85,86,87]
Metal-based	Al-coated conductive paper	Stable, conductive, stretchable	Chemical solution process	Low cost, Vacuum not required, Direct deposition of Al on fibers	Need a suitable catalyst for decomposition process	19 mΩ/□	[88]
	AgNP/Ag nanowires	Conductive	Wet spinning	Simple, highly conductive material	Need optimization of suitable solvents and coagulation liquids	2200–5400 S/cm	[89,90]