A flexible and transparent thin film heater based on a carbon fiber /heat-resistant cellulose composite

The thin flexible film heater made of carbon fibers is widely considered to be an ideal material for the use as self-heating devices because of its safe, low-cost, no noises, small size and fast heating as well as energy saving. Presently thin flexible film heater is mostly fabricated by mixing method using the long cellulose fibers as film-forming materials and carbon fibers as self-heating materials, which mostly suffer from opaque or uneven heating field. In this work, we firstly reported a flexible and transparent thin film heater (FTFH) composed of carbon fibers and regenerated cellulose . The use of regenerated cellulose for membrane materials brings high transmittance, strong adhesion , fast temperature response and high generated temperature. More importantly, the FTFH using novel carbon fibers as self-heating materials and regenerated cellulose as membrane materials show a rapid heating response (12 s), higher power density (2577 w/m 2 ) and long-term stability of generated temperature (162.3 °C).