Printed Textile-Based Ag 2 O-Zn Battery for Body Conformal Wearable Sensors

Wearable electronics are playing an important role in the health care industry. Wearable sensors are either directly attached to the body surface or embedded into worn garments. Textile-based batteries can help towards development of body conformal wearable sensors. In this letter, we demonstrate a...

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Published inSensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 6
Main Authors Kota, Akash, Gogia, Ashish, Neidhard-Doll, Amy T, Chodavarapu, Vamsy P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland 20.03.2021
Subjects
Electric Power Supplies
Silver
Textiles
Wearable Electronic Devices
Zinc
textile battery
battery characteristics
sensor power
stencil printing
zinc-silver oxide
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Summary:Wearable electronics are playing an important role in the health care industry. Wearable sensors are either directly attached to the body surface or embedded into worn garments. Textile-based batteries can help towards development of body conformal wearable sensors. In this letter, we demonstrate a 2D planar textile-based primary Ag O-Zn battery fabricated using the stencil printing method. A synthetic polyester woven fabric is used as the textile substrate and polyethylene oxide material is used as the separator. The demonstrated battery achieves an areal capacity of 0.6 mAh/cm with an active electrode area of 0.5 cm × 1 cm.
ISSN:1424-8220