Development of Flexible Textile Aluminium-Air Battery Prototype
Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy 2021
Aleksandrs Vališevskis, Uģis Briedis, Miguel Carvalho, Fernando Ferreira

There is one component that virtually any embedded wearable needs—a power source. This paper proposes an energy source, which contains no harmful substances, can be stored in a stand-by dry state for indefinite time period, is flexible and has tactile characteristics similar to that of textile. The main feature of this energy source is the separation of the electrolyte and the electrodes—the electrolyte is applied only when the battery needs to be activated. This makes storage time in a dry state virtually infinite. It expands their potential use to storage solutions and healthcare/health monitoring solutions, because the design of the battery allows it to be used as an active sensor, which generates electric current, when it detects liquid. We stress that this solution is suitable for specific applications only, outlined in the paper. The main components of the battery include aluminium anode, air cathode and the cotton shell. The design includes only textile-based materials, which ensure greater flexibility and better fusion with textile materials, where the battery is intended to be integrated. Besides that, results of the experiments with multi-cell battery prototype are presented.


Keywords
Aluminium-air battery | Embroidery | Flexible battery | Smart textiles
DOI
10.1007/s40243-021-00191-z
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40243-021-00191-z

Vališevskis, A., Briedis, U., Carvalho, M., Ferreira, F. Development of Flexible Textile Aluminium-Air Battery Prototype. Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2021, Vol. 10, No. 1, Article number 6. ISSN 2194-1459. e-ISSN 2194-1467. Available from: doi:10.1007/s40243-021-00191-z

Publication language
English (en)
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