Next-generation textiles: from embedded supercapacitors to lithium ion batteries

Gulzar, Umair; Goriparti, Subrahmanyam; Miele, Ermanno; Tao, Li; Maidecchi, Giulia; Toma, Andréa; Angelis, Francesco De; Capiglia, Claudio; Zaccaria, Remo Proietti

doi:10.1039/c6ta06437j

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“…[166] The conductive textiles made of SWCNTs electrodes showed good stretchability and high areal capacitance of up to 0.48 F cm −2 due to the strong adhesion between coating electrodes and textiles. [168] A pioneering work showed a tricot wavy structure alternately interwoven with inelastic and elastic hybrid yarns, constituting a repeating zigzag pattern, [169] as illustrated in Figure 7c. More importantly, the outstanding stretchability of the yarn textile mainly relied on the weaving strategy.…”

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Stretchable Supercapacitors as Emergent Energy Storage Units for Health Monitoring Bioelectronics

Chen

Villa

Zhuang

et al. 2019

Advanced Energy Materials

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Emerging health monitoring bioelectronics require energy storage units with improved stretchability, biocompatibility, and self‐charging capability. Stretchable supercapacitors hold great potential for such systems due to their superior specific capacitances, power densities, and tissue‐conforming properties, as compared to both batteries and conventional capacitors. Despite the rapid progress that has been made in supercapacitor research, practical applications in health monitoring bioelectronics have yet to be achieved, requiring innovations in materials, device configurations, and fabrications tailored for such applications. In this review, the progress in stretchable supercapacitor‐powered health monitoring bioelectronics is summarized and the required specifications of supercapacitors for different types of application settings with varying demands on biocompatibility are discussed, including nontouching wearables, skin‐touching wearables, skin‐conforming wearables, and implantables. The perspective of this review is then broadened to focus on integration of stretchable supercapacitors in bioelectronics and aspects of energy harvesting and sensing. Finally further insights on the existing challenges in this developing field and potential solutions are provided.

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Stretchable Supercapacitors as Emergent Energy Storage Units for Health Monitoring Bioelectronics

Chen

Villa

Zhuang

et al. 2019

Advanced Energy Materials

109

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“…Unlike supercapacitors, the dynamically slow deintercalation–intercalation of lithium ions requires materials with specific structures, while a lot of active materials with suitable structures for LIBs are not conductive enough, which raises higher demand for the conductivity of textile substrates . Besides, LIBs are usually sensitive to air, moisture, and temperature; therefore, their practical applications as ESTs face huge challenges . Recent research progress on textile LIBs is discussed in the following subsections.…”

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“…For example, tensile tests may be employed to investigate the strength and elasticity of ESTs, and specified bending or twisting tests can be used to determine the flexibility of ESTs. This is especially important for textiles woven/knitted from fiber/yarn‐shaped units, because knitting and weaving machines usually impose a stress of 2–4 MPa, which may cause fractures due to the friction between the fibers/yarns and the mechanical parts . It should also be noted that not all ESTs are designed to be wearable: they can also be applied as furniture accessories, such as carpets or curtains, that have low wearability requirements.…”

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Advances in Flexible and Wearable Energy‐Storage Textiles

Liu

et al. 2018

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Considerable attention has been drawn to flexible and wearable energy‐storage devices due to the blooming of portable and wearable electronics in recent years. However, huge challenges are yet to be addressed before the need of both high flexibility and high performance can be met. With many desired features for wearable applications, textiles have become a growing research frontier where scientific views from various fields collide, sparking new ideas. Here, recent research progress in energy‐storage textiles (ESTs), in which textiles are employed to enhance either electrochemical performance or flexibility and wearability, is summarized. The research of ESTs is mainly divided into three parts, with a focus on supercapacitors, lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs), and some other representative battery systems, respectively. Electrode preparation, cell assembly, device performance, and the remaining challenges are discussed in detail, aiming to provide insights for future development.

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“…[75] The high conductivity of textile electrodes could be achieved simply by a "dipping and drying" method with concentrated SWNTs ink. [37] The conductive textiles showed good flexibility and had a strong adhesion between the SWNTs and the textiles (Figure 9a).…”

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Toward Soft Skin‐Like Wearable and Implantable Energy Devices

Gong

Cheng

2017

Advanced Energy Materials

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The development of ultra‐compliant power sources is crucial for their seamless integration with next‐generation skin‐like wearable and implantable biomedical systems for long‐term health monitoring. Toward this goal, stretchable energy storage and conversion devices (ESCDs), including supercapacitors, lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs), solar cells, and generators are now attracting intensive worldwide research efforts. The purpose of this review is to discuss the latest achievements in the development of such stretchable energy devices in the context of biomedical applications. We first review the viable strategies and methodologies of fabricating stretchable energy storage and conversion devices. Then, we focus on description of various types of soft energy devices from a materials point of view. Furthermore, we discuss the challenges and opportunities in the design of truly conformal soft energy systems, including various key parameters, such as energy density, stability, and scalability.

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Next-generation textiles: from embedded supercapacitors to lithium ion batteries

Abstract: In this work we have reviewed the state of the art of energy storage devices for textile applications.

Cited by 125 publications

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Stretchable Supercapacitors as Emergent Energy Storage Units for Health Monitoring Bioelectronics

Stretchable Supercapacitors as Emergent Energy Storage Units for Health Monitoring Bioelectronics

Advances in Flexible and Wearable Energy‐Storage Textiles

Toward Soft Skin‐Like Wearable and Implantable Energy Devices

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