Clothing could be used to power iPods and mobile phones

Clothing capable of storing electricity like batteries could be used to power iPods and mobile phones in the future.

Batteries are included as clothing promises to charge up gadgets

Engineers at Stanford University have found that they can turn fabrics and ordinary paper into lightweight batteries simply by coating them in ink laced with microscopic tubes of carbon.

The tubes, known as single-walled carbon nanotubes, when fixed onto fabrics such as cotton were found to be highly efficient at storing energy while still remaining flexible and stretchable like normal fabric.
Dr Yi Cui, from the department of materials science and engineering at Stanford University, in California, believes such materials could be used to create wearable batteries that can charge up portable devices such as mobile phones and MP3 players while on the move.

Paper coated in the conductive ink could also create new forms of moving displays for walls and powerful lightweight batteries.


Source: telegraph