Intelligent SMART Textiles: Wearable Textile Devices for Solar Cells

Abstract

Wearable electronics fabricated on flexible and lightweight substrates are seen to provide substantial promise for portable devices, despite their usage being restricted by battery life. The textile technique that self-charges can capture and store both indoor and outdoor sunlight. Using dye-sensitized solar cells in the form of fibers (for solar energy), any of these energies may be readily converted into electricity and then kept in fiber-shaped supercapacitors as chemical energy. Due to the entire system's all-fiber-shaped construction, it would be simple to incorporate this self-charging textile technology with electronic textiles to make smart clothes that can run wearable or mobile gadgets in an environmentally friendly manner. This method facilitates the production of solar textile, a type of intelligent textile.