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Wearable and flexible textile battery

A team of scientists from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has reported advancements in textile battery structures, which exhibit comparable electrochemical properties with metal foil cells and also have some of the features of textiles. The new research, featured in a recent issue of Nanoletters, is said to help to address the problem of lack of textile properties such as drapability and wash durability of smart textiles containing electronic materials.

9th December 2013

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Lubbock, TX

Industrial, Clothing/​Footwear

A team of scientists from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has reported advancements in textile battery structures, which exhibit comparable electrochemical properties with metal foil cells and also have some of the features of textiles.

The new research, featured in a recent issue of Nanoletters, is said to help to address the problem of lack of textile properties such as drapability and wash durability of smart textiles containing electronic materials.

Better performance

KAIST scientists coated Nickel on to woven polyester fabrics using the electroless deposition method. This approach is said to have enabled them to have good drapability, enhancing the wearability of such structures.

According to the research, the new electronic textiles performed better than aluminium foiled batteries, where the battery layer started to disintegrate after single folding and unfolding operation.

Wearable textile batteries

The new findings from the KAIST scientists show that the basic current collector structure, i.e. textile fabrics, play an important role in the development of wearable textile batteries.

The coating technique employed to provide electrochemical characteristics to base textiles is also said to play a significant part.

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