heating pad- material experiment

When current go through, some conductive materials will also turn warm or even hot, so I tried different kinds of materials and look for a best which can make a heating pad.

The red paper will turn white when it feels hot.
1.conductive thread knitting mit common thread.
resistance :  about 11 Ω
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when voltage is 4V , current is 0.4A :
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it seems like nothing happened.
when voltage is 7.5V, current is 0.8A :
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it turns warm.
when voltage is 7.8V, current is 1A :
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it is getting warmer.
when voltage is 9.3V, current is 1.2A:
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now it’s hot.
when voltage is 10.6V, current is 1.4A:
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now it is quite hot and even fast get burned…
2.copper fabric
resistance :  about 0.2 Ω
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when voltage is 3.2V, current 3.2A, namely the most amount:
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nothing happened but the crocodile is quite hot.
3.stainless still thread.
resistance :  about 7 Ω

 

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when voltage is1.8V, current 1A,

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it gets hot quite fast.
4. carbon paper
resistance :  about 1 kΩ
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I put the highest amount but nothing happened.
5. carbon fabric
resistance :  about 0.7mΩ
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the same result with No.4
6.Conductive yarn
resistance :  10cm about 1.5mΩ

when Voltage 8V  current 0.1A:

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Voltage 10V  Current 0.15A:

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Voltage 12 V  Current 0.18A  :

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it  shrinks and burns….

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