Wearable Self-Charging Power Textile Based on Flexible Yarn Supercapacitors and Fabric Nanogenerators

Xiong Pu; Linxuan Li; Mengmeng Liu; Chunyan Jiang; Chunhua Du; Zhenfu Zhao; Weiguo Hu; Zhong Lin Wang

doi:10.1002/adma.201504403

Wearable Self-Charging Power Textile Based on Flexible Yarn Supercapacitors and Fabric Nanogenerators

Adv Mater. 2016 Jan 6;28(1):98-105. doi: 10.1002/adma.201504403. Epub 2015 Nov 5.

Authors

Xiong Pu¹, Linxuan Li¹, Mengmeng Liu¹, Chunyan Jiang¹, Chunhua Du¹, Zhenfu Zhao¹, Weiguo Hu¹, Zhong Lin Wang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100083, China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0245, USA.

PMID: 26540288
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504403

Abstract

A novel and scalable self-charging power textile is realized by combining yarn supercapacitors and fabric triboelectric nanogenerators as energy-harvesting devices.

Keywords: reduced graphene oxides; self-charging textiles; triboelectric nanogenerators; wearable electronics; yarn supercapacitors.