Stretchable fabric generates electric power from woven thermoelectric fibers

Tingting Sun; Beiying Zhou; Qi Zheng; Lianjun Wang; Wan Jiang; Gerald Jeffrey Snyder

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14399-6

Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Stretchable fabric generates electric power from woven thermoelectric fibers

Tingting Sun,
Beiying Zhou,
Qi Zheng,
Lianjun Wang,
Wan Jiang,
Gerald Jeffrey Snyder

Affiliations

Tingting Sun: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University
Beiying Zhou: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University
Qi Zheng: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University
Lianjun Wang: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University
Wan Jiang: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University
Gerald Jeffrey Snyder: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14399-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Despite recent advances in flexible thermoelectric generators for wearable devices, current designs are unable to efficiently harvest heat flowing from human body. Here, the authors report high thermoelectric performance and stretchability in interlocked fiber-based modules for wearable devices.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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