An engineer has found a cheap and efficient production of lightweight paper battery and super capacitor, and the extension and transfer of textile methods, called “e-textiles (eTextiles)”, which textiles can store energy, while preserving plain paper or fabric mechanical properties
Battery and super capacitor energy storage by static electricity, not a chemical method.
Stanford University engineers YiCui to plain paper or fabric soaked in a special nano-particles into the ink, the development of e-textiles.
Cui’s team invented the idea of even many of their functions and purpose. May one day save the future of home energy use wallpaper. Gadget lovers can connect a gadget at any time to their T-shirts, small tools and equipment to the portable charger. Textiles can also be used in the production of energy mobile display clothing, produce response functions with high-performance sports clothing, and wear ability with heavily armed soldiers.
Development of these high-tech products is the main component of the human eye can not see the nano-structures, nano-structures can be assembled, so that they have the conductive features, such as assembly structure may present a number of power storage devices on the market provide solutions for problems encountered.
Cui team experimental device type of nanoparticles used in products expected to function under the change – lithium cobalt oxide is a compound commonly used in batteries, and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is used for super-capacitors.
Cui said: “Energy storage is a very old area of research, super capacitors, batteries – these are old things. How to truly make a revolutionary impact in this area? It takes a lot of different ways of thinking.”