Smart Textiles for Electricity Generation.
By Guorui Chen, Yongzhong Li, Michael Bick, Jun Chen. Chemical Reviews, 2020
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Textiles have been concomitant of human civilization for thousands of years. With the advances in chemistry and materials, integrating textiles with energy harvesters will provide a sustainable, environmentally friendly, pervasive, and wearable energy solution for distributed on-body electronics in the era of Internet of Things. This article comprehensively and thoughtfully reviews research activities regarding the utilization of smart textiles for harvesting energy from renewable energy sources on the human body and its surroundings. Specifically, we start with a brief introduction to contextualize the significance of smart textiles in light of the emerging energy crisis, environmental pollution, and public health. Next, we systematically review smart textiles according to their abilities to harvest biomechanical energy, body heat energy, biochemical energy, solar energy as well as hybrid forms of energy. Finally, we provide a critical analysis of smart textiles and insights into remaining challenges and future directions. With worldwide efforts, innovations in chemistry and materials elaborated in this review will push forward the frontiers of smart textiles, which will soon revolutionize our lives in the era of Internet of Things.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics
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- Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters (2021, background): “With the increasing demand of humans monitoring their physical conditions, external devices with wearable and portable designs of biomechanical energy harvesters, have played an increasingly important role in constructing self-powered or self-sustainable systems in smart healthcare [374 – 380].”
- Design, manufacturing and applications of wearable triboelectric nanogenerators (2021, neutral): “Thus, smart yarns/tex-tiles appear and seize this part of energy [42 – 44].”