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By integrating special sensors into clothing, body functions and movements can be detected. Piezoresistive sensors measure a change in electrical resistance due to the application of force in the form of stretching, pressure or bending. In order to manufacture such sensors, conventional non-conductive textile materials need to be made conductive by finishing processes. Therefore, a non-conductive silicone monofilament was coated with a conductive carbon silicone and additional silver-containing components and investigated for its suitability as a strain sensor. The changes in electrical resistance and the gauge factor as a measure of the sensitivity of a sensor were measured and calculated. In this publication, the electrical properties of such a filament-based sensor in the context of particle composition and concentration are discussed. The electrical resistance was already significantly reduced in a first step by coating with conductive carbon silicone (145 k\u03a9). The addition of silver-containing components further reduced the electrical resistance in a second step. Thereby, flat flakes of silver proved to be much more effective than silver-containing particles (5 k\u03a9 at 20% addition). The former was easier to integrate into the coating and formed contact surfaces with each other at higher concentrations. Stretching the samples increased the resistance by enlarging the distance between the conductive components. With 30% silver-coated glass flakes in the coating, the highest gauge factor of 0.33 was achieved. Consequently, the changes in electrical resistance during stretching can be exploited to detect motion and the gauge factor indicates that even small changes in strain can be detected, so the herein developed coated monofilaments are suggested for use as strain sensors. Future work includes matching the particle composition and concentration to the exact application and investigating the sensors in the field.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym14040806","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,21]],"date-time":"2022-02-21T08:23:29Z","timestamp":1645431809000},"page":"806","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Coating of Silicone Monofilaments with Elastic Carbon Black-Silver-Silicone Layers and Their Characterization Especially with Regard to the Change of the Electrical Resistance in Dependence on Strain"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8993-1236","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kristina","family":"Klinkhammer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Textile and Clothing (FTB), Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ramona","family":"Nolden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Textile and Clothing (FTB), Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rike","family":"Brendgen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Textile and Clothing (FTB), Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Manuela","family":"Niemeyer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Textile and Clothing (FTB), Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kerstin","family":"Z\u00f6ll","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Textile and Clothing (FTB), Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"},{"name":"Faculty of Textile and Clothing Technology, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3389-0591","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anne","family":"Schwarz-Pfeiffer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Textile and Clothing (FTB), Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"},{"name":"Faculty of Textile and Clothing Technology, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Webschulstr 31, 41065 M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2011). 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