Advanced Fiber Materials, Volume. 7, Issue 1, 00484(2025)

An Energy-Autonomous Wearable Fabric Powered by High-Power Density Sweat-Activated Batteries for Health Monitoring

Xiaoling Tong1, Tianjiao Hua2, Miaoyi Xu1, Dongzi Yang2, Gang Xiao1,3, Shuo Li4, Xiaohui Cao5, and Yuanlong Shao1,3,6、*
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  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
  • 2College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials Innovations (SIEMIS), Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu Province, SUDA-BGI Collaborative Innovation Center, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI), Beijing, 100095, People’s Republic of China
  • 4Materials Science and Engineering, Physical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 23955-6900 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 5State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People’s Republic of China
  • 6Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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    The rapid advancement of personalized healthcare brings forth a myriad of self-powered integrated sweat fabric systems. However, challenges such as alkaline by-products, low open-circuit voltage and output power have made them unsuitable for the continuously powering biosensors. Here, we have designed a sweat-activated polyaniline/single-wall carbon nanotube||Zinc (PANI/SWCNTs||Zn) battery fabric featuring multiple redox states. This innovative battery achieves a high open-circuit voltage of 1.2 V within 1.0 s and boasts an impressive power density of 2.5 mW cm-2 due to the rapid solid–liquid two-phase electronic/ionic transfer interface. In-depth characterization reveals that the discharge mechanism involves the reduction of emeraldine salt to leucoemeraldine without oxygen reduction. By integrating this system seamlessly, the sweat-activated batteries can directly power a patterned light-emitting diode and a multiplexed sweat biosensor, while wirelessly transmitting data to a user interface via Bluetooth. This strategic design offers safety warnings and continuous real-time health monitoring for night walking or running. This work paves the way for the development of an efficient and sustainable energy-autonomous electronic fabric system tailored for individual health monitoring. Highly power-density sweat-activated PANI/SWCNTs||Zn fiber battery has been fabricated by rapid reduction of emeraldine salt to leucoemeraldine. Through seamless system integration, the thus-fabricated sweat-activated battery pack can power a multiplexed sweat biosensor, demonstrating the feasibility of a sustainable energy-autonomous electronic fabric system for continuous individual health monitoring.

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    Xiaoling Tong, Tianjiao Hua, Miaoyi Xu, Dongzi Yang, Gang Xiao, Shuo Li, Xiaohui Cao, Yuanlong Shao. An Energy-Autonomous Wearable Fabric Powered by High-Power Density Sweat-Activated Batteries for Health Monitoring[J]. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2025, 7(1): 00484

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 17, 2024

    Accepted: Aug. 30, 2024

    Published Online: Mar. 14, 2025

    The Author Email: Shao Yuanlong (shaoyuanlong@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s42765-024-00484-8

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