Stretchable Coplanar Self-Charging Power Textile with Resist-Dyeing Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Microsupercapacitors

Zifeng Cong; Wenbin Guo; Zihao Guo; Yanghui Chen; Mengmeng Liu; Tingting Hou; Xiong Pu; Weiguo Hu; Zhong Lin Wang

doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b09994

Stretchable Coplanar Self-Charging Power Textile with Resist-Dyeing Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Microsupercapacitors

ACS Nano. 2020 May 26;14(5):5590-5599. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b09994. Epub 2020 May 11.

Authors

Zifeng Cong^{1

2}, Wenbin Guo^{1

2}, Zihao Guo^{1

2}, Yanghui Chen^{1

2}, Mengmeng Liu^{1

2}, Tingting Hou^{1

2}, Xiong Pu^{1

2

3}, Weiguo Hu^{1

2

3}, Zhong Lin Wang^{1

2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Energy and Sensor, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China.
² School of Nanoscience and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ Center on Nanoenergy Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
⁴ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, United States.

PMID: 32369343
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b09994

Abstract

The integration between energy-harvesting and energy-storage devices into a self-charging power unit is an effective approach to address the energy bottleneck of wearable/portable/wireless smart devices. Herein, we demonstrate a stretchable coplanar self-charging power textile (SCPT) with triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) and microsupercapacitors (MSCs) both fabricated through a resist-dyeing-analogous method. The textile electrodes maintain excellent conductivity at 600% and 200% tensile strain along course and wale directions, respectively. The fabric in-plane MSC with reduced graphene oxides as active materials reaches a maximum areal capacitance of 50.6 mF cm^-2 at 0.01 V s^-1 and shows no significant degradation at 50% of tensile strain. The stretchable fabric-based TENG can output 49 V open-circuit voltage and 94.5 mW m^-2 peak power density. Finally, a stretchable coplanar SCPT with one-batch resist-dyeing fabrication is demonstrated for powering small electronics intermittently without extra recharging. Our approach is also compatible with conventional textile processing and suggests great potential in electronic textiles and wearable electronics.

Keywords: self-charging power textile; smart textile; stretchable; supercapacitors; triboelectric nanogenerators.