Breakthrough Process Creates Next Generation of Powered Wearable Fibers

Credit: Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman

APL researchers customized battery equipment to achieve the thinness required for fiber batteries. The fiber-like battery strand is roughly 700 micrometers wide — about the width of five human hairs.

« Breakthrough Process Creates Next Generation of Powered Wearable Fibers

Credit: Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman

Researchers cut and assembled tiny solar cells on thin, flexible circuit boards before sealing them in a protective polymer to create a fiber-like strand that was woven with nylon into a small textile.

« Breakthrough Process Creates Next Generation of Powered Wearable Fibers

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