Fudan New Material Can Produce Solar Fiber Cells

I wonder if you ever thought that one day, our clothes, hats, and bags will all “self-generate” and the mobile phone will be recharged at any time. The huge power station will become history, and only a table-sized machine will be needed to generate electricity in the future? University researchers have recently succeeded in developing oriented carbon nanotube fibers, a key step towards the development of a completely fibrous energy system. The new type of solar fiber battery based on this technology will make it possible for humans to use solar energy efficiently and effectively whenever and wherever possible.

The new, flexible fibrous energy integrated device newly developed by Professor Peng Huisheng of Fudan University’s Advanced Materials Laboratory and Department of Polymer Science can produce a fiber-like solar cell with a diameter as thin as a hair. Only 60-100 microns (1 mm = 1000 microns). Fibrous means that they can be woven into clothes, trousers, and other textiles as ordinary chemical fibers, making clothes like a large solar cell, to achieve its own "power generation." This new type of solar fiber battery can store this energy while converting sunlight into electricity, and does not require the addition of other storage batteries or energy storage devices. Even in the absence of sunlight and nighttime lighting, people can use solar energy as they wish.