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Researchers have developed a highly flexible, high-energy textile lithium battery that offers more stable, durable and safe energy supply for wearable electronics with a myriad of applications, such ...

Researchers in the US have reported a new design of a flexible wearable supercapacitor patch, an advance that brings wearable textile technology closer to market. A flexible textile supercapacitor ...

Researchers are one step closer to making wearable textile technology a reality. Materials scientists have reported a new design of a flexible wearable supercapacitor patch. It uses MXene to create a ...

German designer Elisa Strozyk has completely rethought the idea of a textile. Her half-wood, half-textile “wooden textiles” transform wood into flexible wooden surfaces through a deconstruction into ...

The rapid development of wearable technology has received another boost from a new development using graphene for printed electronic devices. New research from The University of Manchester has ...

PolyU has developed a highly flexible high-energy textile lithium battery to cope with surging demand for wearable electronics. The lightweight Textile Lithium Battery demonstrates high energy density ...

Not long ago, we reported on a prototype thin, flexible smartphone known as the Paperphone. While it isn't actually made out of paper, the success of a research project at North Carolina State ...

A team of researchers based at the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada have designed a flexible battery that can be woven into fabric. Led by Maksim Skorobogatiy, the team managed to create smart ...

Researchers at Drexel University are one step closer to making wearable textile technology a reality. Recently published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Material’s Chemistry A, ...