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ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 33, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004832
Keywords
energy harvesting; energy storage; soft robotics; stretchable electronics
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- National Science Foundation ASSIST ERC [EEC-1160483]
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This review discusses the various ways of converting ambient energy into electricity using soft and stretchable materials, which is beneficial for emerging fields like stretchable electronics, e-skins, bio-integrated wearables, and soft robotics. By harnessing energy from the environment, these devices can have greater range of motion, better compliance, and increased application space.
This review highlights various modes of converting ambient sources of energy into electricity using soft and stretchable materials. These mechanical properties are useful for emerging classes of stretchable electronics, e-skins, bio-integrated wearables, and soft robotics. The ability to harness energy from the environment allows these types of devices to be tetherless, thereby leading to a greater range of motion (in the case of robotics), better compliance (in the case of wearables and e-skins), and increased application space (in the case of electronics). A variety of energy sources are available including mechanical (vibrations, human motion, wind/fluid motion), electromagnetic (radio frequency (RF), solar), and thermodynamic (chemical or thermal energy). This review briefly summarizes harvesting mechanisms and focuses on the materials' strategies to render such devices into soft or stretchable embodiments.
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