A Wearable All-Solid Photovoltaic Textile

Nannan Zhang; Jun Chen; Yi Huang; Wanwan Guo; Jin Yang; Jun Du; Xing Fan; Changyuan Tao

doi:10.1002/adma.201504137

A Wearable All-Solid Photovoltaic Textile

Adv Mater. 2016 Jan 13;28(2):263-9. doi: 10.1002/adma.201504137. Epub 2015 Nov 6.

Authors

Nannan Zhang¹, Jun Chen², Yi Huang¹, Wanwan Guo¹, Jin Yang³, Jun Du¹, Xing Fan¹, Changyuan Tao¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P. R. China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0245, USA.
³ College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, P. R. China.

PMID: 26544099
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504137

Abstract

A solution is developed to power portable electronics in a wearable manner by fabricating an all-solid photovoltaic textile. In a similar way to plants absorbing solar energy for photosynthesis, humans can wear the as-fabricated photovoltaic textile to harness solar energy for powering small electronic devices.

Keywords: photovoltaic textiles; portable electronics; solar cells; wearable electronics.