wearable solar cells power electronics
A drained smartphone battery often sens us hunting for the nearest outlet, if there even is any. but within a decade, we might be wearing the outlet. in a world of fabrics infused with the power of the sun, recharging could be as simple as plugging devices in to our clothes. helping this potential future along, chemist john badding and his colleagues at pennsylvania state university recently embedded solar cells within flexible wires that can be woven into fabric. the wires act as rooftop solar cells that generate usable power when getting the sunlight.