Researchers in the United States have teamed up to develop a new solar-powered textile technology that they claim to integrate technology and overcome the many challenges of the manufacturing process.

With the donation from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), TrishaAndrew, Energy Researcher and Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Wisconsin-Madison University, Marianne Fairbanks, Assistant Professor of Design and Research at the Department of Human Ecology, and Noon Solar, co-founder of solar charging handbags, have joined forces Solar textiles.

Although it is not the first time to create solar textiles, Andrew said that the challenge of integrating technology and manufacturing processes in the process of cooperation is to gradually lower the price and attractive solar cells for consumers.

Andrew and her team are currently using high molecular polymers to coat different fabric types and structures, which can add 10 times more conductivity to the fabric. Once fully coated, the fabric will act as the bottom electrode and the base layer on it will serve as the remainder of the solar cell.

By this time next year, researchers hope to use this coating technology to develop prototypes. Their goal is to verify the feasibility of this concept, weaving each component together, using two dyes, two electrodes, to make A fully functional connection point.