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ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
Volume 1, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/admt.201600147
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- US Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-14-1-0128]
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation
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All-textile triboelectric generators (TEGs) allow for seamless integration of TEGs into garments, while maintaining the intrinsic flexibility, breathability, durability, and aesthetic value of normal textiles. However, practical approaches to construct fabric TEGs using traditional textile processes, such as sewing, weaving, and knitting, are underreported. In this work, two approaches to create an all-textile TEG using straight-forward textile manufacturing methods are presented. The first approach is to assemble two different cloths of opposite surface charge characteristics in a face-to-face configuration. A cotton fabric functionalized with fluoroalkylated polymeric siloxanes is necessary to generate usable triboelectric power output, when coupled with a pristine nylon cloth. The increased surface charge density by introducing fluoroalkyl groups is confirmed by Kelvin probe force microscopy measurements. The second approach is to weave or knit together two different conductive threads of opposite surface charge characteristics to create a monolithic triboelectric textile. The weave or knit pattern used to assemble this textile directly controls the density of contact points between the two types of threads, which, ultimately, determines the areal triboelectric power output of the textile. Overall, two feasible methods for constructing unprecedented textile-based triboelectric generators with notable power output are presented.
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