| Title | Washable, Wearable Battery-like Devices Could Be Woven Directly into Clothes | |
| Date | Thursday May 16 2019, @08:06AM | |
| Author | Fnord666 | |
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| from the zap! dept. | ||
Cambridge researchers, working in collaboration with colleagues at Jiangnan University in China, have shown how graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon – and other related materials can be directly incorporated into fabrics to produce charge storage elements such as capacitors, paving the way to textile-based power supplies which are washable, flexible and comfortable to wear.
The research, published in the journal Nanoscale, demonstrates that graphene inks can be used in textiles able to store electrical charge and release it when required. The new textile electronic devices are based on low-cost, sustainable and scalable dyeing of polyester fabric. The inks are produced by standard solution processing techniques.
The static cling in fresh laundry should be even more fun now.
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