Myant partners with Heraeus Medical Components

Myant, leaders in textile computing, and Heraeus Medical Components, experts in biomaterials and components for medical devices, manufacturing technologies, and supply chain excellence, have entered into an exclusive partnership to develop, test, prototype, and produce a solution leveraging Heraeus’ Tecticoat coating for electrical sensing applications in textiles. Tecticoat is a conductive polymer-based coating that can be applied to textiles to control electrical conductivity, electromagnetic shielding, and electrostatic dissipation, making it an ideal material for integration into connected, on-skin textile applications.

The performance of electrodes that interface with the human body via the skin is governed by the electrical behavior of the materials forming the interface. Traditional electrode designs using electrolytic gels or other adhesives are cumbersome and poorly-suited for broad consumer applications, while dry electrodes tend to vary in performance under different humidity levels and generally suffer due to electrical noise. Heraeus has managed to overcome these challenges using Tecticoat, a flexible, robust, medically formulated, polymer-based coating that can be applied onto yarns like the ones developed by Myant for its bioelectrical on-skin sensing (e.g. ECG, EEG, EMG) textile applications.