Recent advancements in thermoelectric generators for smart textile application

S Newby, W Mirihanage, A Fernando - Materials Today Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Electro-textiles are the future of wearable technology and have the potential to revolutionise
numerous industries. However, electro-textiles require a power source to sense, analyse …

Whole fabric‐assisted thermoelectric devices for wearable electronics

Y Hou, Y Yang, Z Wang, Z Li, X Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible thermoelectric generators (f‐TEGs) have demonstrated great potential in wearable
self‐powered health monitoring devices. However, the existing wearable f‐TEGs are neither …

A novel design for a wearable thermoelectric generator based on 3D fabric structure

Q Wu, J Hu - Smart Materials and Structures, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A flexible and wearable thermoelectric generator (TEG) could enable the conversion of
human body heat into electrical power, which would help to realize a self-powered wearable …

[HTML][HTML] Facile fabrication of paper-based flexible thermoelectric generator

Z Dong, H Liu, X Yang, J Fan, H Bi, C Wang… - npj Flexible …, 2021 - nature.com
Paper, as a foldable, pollution-free, and low-cost material, has become a suitable support
substrate for producing flexible thermoelectric (TE) generators to realize waste heat …

[HTML][HTML] Stretchable fabric generates electric power from woven thermoelectric fibers

T Sun, B Zhou, Q Zheng, L Wang, W Jiang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Assembling thermoelectric modules into fabric to harvest energy from body heat could one
day power multitudinous wearable electronics. However, the invalid 2D architecture of fabric …

Novel structural design of wearable thermoelectric generator with vertically oriented thermoelements

MN Hasan, N Nayan, M Nafea, AGA Muthalif, MSM Ali - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting technology has become important for wearable electronics, where a
continuous power supply is essential. Although a wearable thermoelectric generator (TEG) …

Textile‐based thermoelectric generators and their applications

L Wang, K Zhang - Energy & Environmental Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of Internet of Things and miniaturized electronics, the demand
for wearable power sources with high reliability and long duty cycle promotes the …

Stretchable thermoelectric fibers with three-dimensional interconnected porous network for low-grade body heat energy harvesting

J Li, B Xia, X Xiao, Z Huang, J Yin, Y Jiang, S Wang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electricity generation from body heat has garnered significant interest as a sustainable
power source for wearable bioelectronics. In this work, we report stretchable n-type …

Wearable thermoelectric generator for harvesting human body heat energy

MK Kim, MS Kim, S Lee, C Kim… - Smart Materials and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the realization of a wearable thermoelectric generator (TEG) in fabric for
use in clothing. A TEG was fabricated by dispenser printing of Bi 0.5 Sb 1.5 Te 3 and Bi 2 Se …

Thermal energy harvesting from the human body using flexible thermoelectric generator (FTEG) fabricated by a dispenser printing technique

ARM Siddique, R Rabari, S Mahmud, B Van Heyst - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, a manual dispenser printing-based fabrication technique has been developed
to synthesize a flexible thermoelectric generator (FTEG). Fabricated FTEGs, printed on …