Jakarta (MidLand) – A Chinese research group has managed to develop a new type of smart fiber capable of emitting light and producing electricity without having to be connected to a power source.
Xinhua, quoted in Jakarta on Tuesday, said that this fiber integrates various functions including wireless energy harvesting, information perception and transmission, and can be made into fabrics capable of realizing human-computer interaction functions such as light displays and touch control without chips and batteries.
The study, recently published in a scientific journal, is expected to change the way humans interact with the environment and between people, and is very important for the application of smart fabrics.
Smart wearable devices have become part of daily life and play an important role in health monitoring, remote medicine (telemedicine), human-computer interaction, and a number of other fields.
Compared with traditional rigid semiconductor components or flexible thin-film devices, electronic fabrics made from smart fibers are more breathable and soft.
However, current smart fiber developments use complex multimodule integration, which increases the volume, weight and stiffness of the fabric.
A research team from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Donghua University accidentally discovered that fibers emit light in a radio field during an experiment. Based on these findings, the team developed a new type of smart fiber that uses electromagnetic energy as the wireless driving force.
This new type of fiber is characterized by convenient raw materials and mature processing technology, said Yang Weifeng, one of the members of the research team. Fiber can realize fabric displays, wireless instruction transmission and other functions without using chips and batteries.
Clothing made from the new fiber can be interactive and bright, and can also remotely control electronic products wirelessly by generating unique signals for the user’s different body postures, said Hou Chengyi, a researcher at Donghua University.
The research team said it will further study how to make these new fibers harvest energy from space more effectively to develop more functions including visualization, deformation and computation.
Journalist: Xinhua
Publisher: Ade P Marboen
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