title: Tailorable and Wearable Textile Devices for Solar Energy Harvesting and Simultaneous Storage.
abstract: The pursuit of harmonic combination of technology and fashion intrinsically points to the development of smart garments. Herein, we present an all-solid tailorable energy textile possessing integrated function of simultaneous solar energy harvesting and storage, and we call it tailorable textile device. Our technique makes it possible to tailor the multifunctional textile into any designed shape without impairing its performance and produce stylish smart energy garments for wearable self-powering system with enhanced user experience and more room for fashion design. The "threads" (fiber electrodes) featuring tailorability and knittability can be large-scale fabricated and then woven into energy textiles. The fiber supercapacitor with merits of tailorability, ultrafast charging capability, and ultrahigh bending-resistance is used as the energy storage module, while an all-solid dye-sensitized solar cell textile is used as the solar energy harvesting module. Our textile sample can be fully charged to 1.2 V in 17 s by self-harvesting solar energy and fully discharged in 78 s at a discharge current density of 0.1 mA.
authors.forename: Zhisheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chai
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Chongqing 400044, China.
authors.forename: Nannan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Chongqing 400044, China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Chuanxi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University , 637371, Singapore.
authors.forename: Hong Jin
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Chongqing 400044, China.
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Wenjie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mai
keywords: energy harvesting; energy storage; smart garment; tailorable; textile