Textiles for health and sporting activity monitoring are on the rise with the advent of smart portable wearables.The intention of this work is to design wireless monitoring wearables,based on widely available textiles...Textiles for health and sporting activity monitoring are on the rise with the advent of smart portable wearables.The intention of this work is to design wireless monitoring wearables,based on widely available textiles and low environmental impact production technologies.Herein we have developed a polymeric ink which is able to functionalize different types of textile fibers(including silver conducting fibers,cotton,and commercial textile)with poly pyrrole.These fibers were weaved together with a thinner silver conducting fiber and carbon fiber to form a touch-sensitive energy harvesting system that would generate an electric output when mechanical pressure is applied to it.Different prototypes were manufactured with loom weaving accessories to simulate real textile cloths.By simple touch,the prototypes produced a maximum voltage of 244 V and a maximum power density of 2.29 W m^(-2).The current generated is then transformed into a digital signal,which is further utilized for human motion or gesture monitorization.The system comprises a wireless block for the Internet of Things(IoT)applicability that will be eventually extended to future remote health and sports monitoring systems.展开更多
基金the project BRIGHT(Project reference:MERA-NET3/0004/2021)financed by national funds from FCT-Fundacao para a Ciência e a Tecnologia,I.P.,in the scope of the projects LA/P/0037/2020,UIDP/50025/2020 and UIDB/50025/2020 of the Associate Laboratory Institute of Nanostructures,Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication-i3N+6 种基金the support from the i3N-FCT-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology through the Ph.D.(Scholarship grant no.UI/BD/151288/2021)also partially supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreements number 952169(SYNERGY,H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5,CSA)and 101008701(EMERGE,H2020-INFRAIA-2020-1),and 101070255(REFORM,HORIZON-C L4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01)also supported by LISBOA-05-3559-FSE-000007CENTRO-04-3559FSE-000094 operationsco-funded by the Lisboa 2020,Centro 2020 programme,Portugal 2020,European Union,through the European Social FundFunda??o para a Ciência e Tecnologia(FCT)Agência Nacional de Inovacao(ANI)。
文摘Textiles for health and sporting activity monitoring are on the rise with the advent of smart portable wearables.The intention of this work is to design wireless monitoring wearables,based on widely available textiles and low environmental impact production technologies.Herein we have developed a polymeric ink which is able to functionalize different types of textile fibers(including silver conducting fibers,cotton,and commercial textile)with poly pyrrole.These fibers were weaved together with a thinner silver conducting fiber and carbon fiber to form a touch-sensitive energy harvesting system that would generate an electric output when mechanical pressure is applied to it.Different prototypes were manufactured with loom weaving accessories to simulate real textile cloths.By simple touch,the prototypes produced a maximum voltage of 244 V and a maximum power density of 2.29 W m^(-2).The current generated is then transformed into a digital signal,which is further utilized for human motion or gesture monitorization.The system comprises a wireless block for the Internet of Things(IoT)applicability that will be eventually extended to future remote health and sports monitoring systems.
