Turn Clothes into Wearable Batteries With the Help of a Dye

Scientists from Stanford University in California have come out with a dye that is capable of turning clothes into conductors.

The carbon-nanotube-based ink developed by Yi Cui and colleagues can soak into fabrics and can turn clothing into wearable batteries

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The ink is made with single-walled carbon nanotubes, reports New Scientist magazine.

The team dyed porous fabrics with the ink to create a conductive textile with very low resistance.

The fabric was found to be consistent in performance even after repeated washes.

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This showed that the ink is durable.

Cui says it's possible to treat the dyed material with an electrolyte to create a fabric capacitor capable of storing and releasing electrical charge.

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He said that technique could be harnessed to power wearable devices.

The findings appear in journal Nano Letters.

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