Nanowerk October 31, 2024
Due to their high conductivity, electrochemically active surface, and ability to produce additive-free coatings from aqueous inks, MXenes are an ideal material to integrate into textiles to add functionality as well as generate and store electrical energy. A team of researchers in the US (Drexel University, industry, University of Pennsylvania, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia) integrated MXenes into wireless charging coils printed onto textiles, serving as a conductive adhesive between MXene textile components. The MXene coils could power MXene-textile supercapacitors, allowing electromyography measurements with epidermal MXene electrodes and active heating with printed MXene-textile filaments. The on-garment energy grid could power real-world electronics, including peripheral electronics performing environmental sensing and data transmission, including an all-MXene surface electromyography sensor with real-time data transmission… read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Graphical abstract. Credit: Materials Today, 29 October 2024