Cotton-textile-enabled flexible self-sustaining power packs via roll-to-roll fabrication

Zan Gao; Clifton Bumgardner; Ningning Song; Yunya Zhang; Jingjing Li; Xiaodong Li

doi:10.1038/ncomms11586

Nature Communications (May 2016)

Cotton-textile-enabled flexible self-sustaining power packs via roll-to-roll fabrication

Zan Gao,
Clifton Bumgardner,
Ningning Song,
Yunya Zhang,
Jingjing Li,
Xiaodong Li

Affiliations

Zan Gao: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
Clifton Bumgardner: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
Ningning Song: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
Yunya Zhang: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
Jingjing Li: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Xiaodong Li: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11586
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Activated cotton textiles are promising for wearable energy storage due to their flexibility and high conductivity, but scalability is an issue. Here, the authors combine supercapacitors and solar cells on activated cotton textiles via scalable roll-to-roll assembly to make self-sustaining power packs.

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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