Self-Healing Polymer Generates Electricity from Body Heat

Jan-08-20 A self-healing composite film able to generate electricity from body heat could open the door to a new generation of wearable technologies.

To function as a wearable, a material must be flexible, strong and sturdy enough to be worn comfortably without damaging easily. A prototype material from the team at KAUST was created to help fill this need, and is made up of three carefully chosen compounds that can be combined to form a stretchy, self-healing, thermoelectric material that can survive the day-to-day movements of the wearer. According to the researchers, a key to the material was the addition of the sticky gel Triton X-100, which encourages the hydrogen bonding needed for the stretchy and self-healing properties to work.

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