Washable, Self-Powered Wearable Textile

Mar-25-19 The team from KAIST has created a washable, wearable textile display able to function without an external power source.

While power sources for electronic wearables are necessary, they also complicate the process of making the material washable. To overcome this obstacle, the team from KAIST created ‘wearing display modules’ on textiles integrated with polymer solar cells (which provide a stable power source) and organic light emitting diodes. To protect the components, which can be damaged by oxygen and moisture, the team improved the previous encapsulation barrier using atomic layer deposition and spin coating—resulting in an electronic textile that can be machine-washed with little change in performance.

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