{"id":30787,"date":"2016-10-05T16:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T23:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/smart-clothing-could-someday-power-cell-phones-with-the-suns-rays"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:11:27","slug":"smart-clothing-could-someday-power-cell-phones-with-the-suns-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/smart-clothing-could-someday-power-cell-phones-with-the-suns-rays","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smart clothing\u2019 could someday power cell phones with the sun\u2019s rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-clothing-could-someday-power-cell-phones-with-the-suns-rays.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Batteries in smart phones and other portable electronics often die at inopportune times. Carrying a spare battery is one solution. As an alternative, researchers have tried to create fibers to incorporate in clothing that would power these devices. However, many of these fibers can\u2019t withstand clothing manufacturing, especially weaving and cutting.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the journal <i>ACS Nano<\/i>, scientists report the first fibers suitable for weaving into tailorable textiles that can capture and release solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>To collect solar power, Wenjie Mai, Xing Fan and colleagues created two different types of fibers. One contained titanium or a manganese-coated polymer along with zinc oxide, a dye and an electrolyte. These fibers were then interlaced with copper-coated polymer wires to create the solar cell section of the textile. To store power, the researchers developed a second type of fiber. This one was made of titanium, <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/titanium+nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">titanium nitride<\/a>, a thin carbon shell to prevent oxidation and an electrolyte. These <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fibers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fibers<\/a> were woven with cotton yarn.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-10-smart-power-cell-sun-rays.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;10-smart-power-cell-sun-rays.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batteries in smart phones and other portable electronics often die at inopportune times. Carrying a spare battery is one solution. As an alternative, researchers have tried to create fibers to incorporate in clothing that would power these devices. However, many of these fibers can\u2019t withstand clothing manufacturing, especially weaving and cutting. Now, in the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66081,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787\/revisions\/66081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}