Electricity generating textiles

Sweaty and heavy?
That is when the textile works at its best. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power, in cooperation with the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås and the research institute Swerea IVF. The greater the load applied to the textile and the wetter it becomes the more electricity it generates. The results have now been published in the Nature Partner journal Flexible Electronics.

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Chalmers University of Technology conducts research and offers education in technology, science, architecture, and marine engineering and management, with a sustainable vision as our global vision.
Situated in Gothenburg on Swedens´s west coast, the university has approximately 10,000 full-time students and 3,100 employees.