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A Jacket That Charges Your Phone as You Take a Walk
In a few years, such crises could become a thing of the past as technology burrows deeper into the apparel industry.Scientists and clothing makers are experimenting with solar cells built into coats, jackets and backpacks that can provide power for portable electronic devices.
Traditional silicon-based cells are inflexible and therefore unsuited to textiles .But help may be on the way from flexible, organic solar cells printed on polymer foils, a new development in which the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), based in Freiburg, Germany, has been instrumental.
Solar cell jackets will not be ready for the market until a number of technical obstacles have been overcome, however. One is the ability to withstand laundering. So far, solar cells are unable to withstand a complete machine wash cycle at 60 degrees centigrade.very mobile worker knows the nightmare: The rechargeable battery in the mobile phone or laptop computer is dead, contact with the outside world is severed, customers are angry and the boss is throwing a fit..
In a few years, such crises could become a thing of the past as technology burrows deeper into the apparel industry.Scientists and clothing makers are experimenting with solar cells built into coats, jackets and backpacks that can provide power for portable electronic devices.Traditional silicon-based cells are inflexible and therefore unsuited to textiles .But help may be on the way from flexible, organic solar cells printed on polymer foils, a new development in which the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), based in Freiburg, Germany, has been instrumental.
Solar cell jackets will not be ready for the market until a number of technical obstacles have been overcome, however. One is the ability to withstand laundering. So far, solar cells are unable to withstand a complete machine wash cycle at 60 degrees centigrade.very mobile worker knows the nightmare: The rechargeable battery in the mobile phone or laptop computer is dead, contact with the outside world is severed, customers are angry and the boss is throwing a fit..
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