Journal
NATURE ENERGY
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NENERGY.2016.138
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Funding
- Hightower Chair foundation
- KAUST
- 'Thousands Talents' Program for pioneer researcher and his innovation team, China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51432005, 5151101243, 51561145021]
- National Key R&D Project from the Minister of Science and Technology [2016YFA0202704]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China [NCET-13-0631]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [106112016CDJZR225514]
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Developing lightweight, flexible, foldable and sustainable power sources with simple transport and storage remains a challenge and an urgent need for the advancement of next-generation wearable electronics. Here, we report a micro-cable power textile for simultaneously harvesting energy from ambient sunshine and mechanical movement. Solar cells fabricated from lightweight polymer fibres into micro cables are then woven via a shuttle-flying process with fibre-based triboelectric nanogenerators to create a smart fabric. A single layer of such fabric is 320 mu m thick and can be integrated into various cloths, curtains, tents and so on. This hybrid power textile, fabricated with a size of 4 cm by 5 cm, was demonstrated to charge a 2 mF commercial capacitor up to 2V in 1 min under ambient sunlight in the presence of mechanical excitation, such as human motion and wind blowing. The textile could continuously power an electronic watch, directly charge a cell phone and drive water splitting reactions.
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