The Smart Wearable Textiles team led by Researcher Zhang Kun from College of Textiles made advances in flexible wearable thermoelectric fabric. The related result was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A of RSC and chosen as the inside cover, titled as “Carbon nanotube yarn based thermoelectric textiles for harvesting thermal Energy and powering electronics”. The first author is the doctoral student of the team, Zheng Yuanyuan, the first corresponding author is Researcher Zhang Kun and the joint corresponding author is Researcher Di Chongan from Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences.
(Schematic diagram of the segmented thermoelectric yarn preparation process)
paperlink:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/ta/c9ta12494b