Textile-Based Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices for Wearable Electronics

Textile-Based Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices for Wearable Electronics is a comprehensive book that explores state-of-the-art developments in textile-based wearable and stretchable electronics. It covers the principles of smart fibers and fabrics, fabrication methods, and various energy harvesting and storage devices, including photovoltaics, piezoelectrics, triboelectrics, supercapacitors, batteries, and sensing and self-powered electric fabrics. The book also discusses expanded functions of smart fabrics, emerging electronic fibers, and self-powered electronic textiles. It provides valuable insight into a highly lucrative new commercial sector and is a must-read for materials scientists, engineering scientists, sensor developers, and electrical engineers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 17 November 2021
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH

Discover state-of-the-art developments in textile-based wearable and stretchable electronics from leaders in the field.

In Textile-Based Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices for Wearable Electronics, renowned researchers Professor Xing Fan and his co-authors deliver an insightful and rigorous exploration of textile-based energy harvesting and storage systems. The book covers the principles of smart fibers and fabrics, as well as their fabrication methods. It introduces, in detail, several fiber- and fabric-based energy harvesting and storage devices, including photovoltaics, piezoelectrics, triboelectrics, supercapacitors, batteries, and sensing and self-powered electric fabrics.

The authors also discuss expanded functions of smart fabrics, like stretchability, hydrophobicity, air permeability, and color-changeability. The book includes sections on emerging electronic fibers and textiles, including stress-sensing, strain-sensing, and chemical-sensing textiles, as well as emerging self-powered electronic textiles.

Textile-Based Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices for Wearable Electronics concludes with an in-depth treatment of upcoming challenges, opportunities, and commercialization requirements for electronic textiles, providing valuable insight into a highly lucrative new commercial sector.

The book also offers:

A thorough introduction to the evolution from classical functional fibers to intelligent fibers and textiles.

An exploration of typical film deposition technologies, like dry-process film deposition and wet-process technologies for roll-to-roll device fabrication.

Practical discussions of the fabrication process of intelligent fibers and textiles, including the synthesis of.

Weight: 874g
Dimension: 252 x 176 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783527345243