Science Daily November 8, 2018
Researchers at UMass, Amherst, have used facile vapor deposition and sewing sequence to create rugged textile microsupercapacitors (MSCs). Conductive threads are vapor-coated with a stably p-doped conducting polymer film and then sewn onto a stretchy textile to form three-dimensional, compactly aligned electrodes with the electrode dimensions defined by the knit structure of the textile backing. The resulting solid-state device has an especially high areal capacitance and energy density sufficient to power contemporary iterations of wearable biosensors. These textile MSCs are super deformable, displaying unchanging electrochemical performance after fully rolling-up the device…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
T-shirt with charge-storing system. Credit: UMass Amherst/Trisha Andrew