Wearable Energy Storage with MXene Textile Supercapacitors for Real World Use
Alex Inman, Tetiana Hryhorchuk, Lingyi Bi, Ruocun (John) Wang, Ben Greenspan, Taylor Tabb, Eric M. Gallo,c Armin VahidMohammadi, Genevieve Dion, Andreea Danielescu and Yury Gogotsi.
There are many challenges in developing wearable energy storage systems, and today’s materials and technologies have limitations that prevent them from being truly flexible, stretchable, and textile-grade. Working with a team of researchers at Drexel University, we took advantage of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides that have unique properties promising for flexible wearable energy storage technologies. The result, a textile-based electrochemical capacitor device using MXene, is a significant step towards truly textile-based energy storage. We demonstrated the MXene textile supercapacitor powering a temperature monitoring system with wireless data transmission for 96 minutes, showing the potential of these materials for use in powering real-world wearable devices. This work is published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.