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Smart Fabric Based Wearable Thermoelectric Device with UV Blocking and Antibacterial Capability for Energy Harvesting Applications

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The current research aimed at fabricating flexible fabric for a wearable thermoelectric power generator. The Zinc oxide nanoparticles were coated onto fabrics to develop a smart flexible low-cost textile-based thermoelectric generators with enhanced UV protection and antibacterial properties. The high-resolution scanning electron microscope results showed the synthesized samples to have a uniform and dense coating of Zinc oxide nanorods. The XRD pattern revealed the formation of wurtzite structured Zinc oxide nanorods. The synthesized fabric showed an excellent UV blocking factor and high Seebeck coefficient and a power factor. A flexible fabric-based thermoelectric device was fabricated, and the output voltage for varying temperatures was measured. The results indicate that the fabricated fabrics would open promising avenues in the field of designing energy-harvesting smart clothes and human healthcare monitoring.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge SRMIST for high resolution scanning electron microscope (HR-SEM) facility and the XRD FACILITY at SRMIST set up with support from MNRE (Project No. 31/03/2014-15/PVSE-R&D), Government of India. We gratefully acknowledge the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Program through the Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (DST/INSPIRE/04/2017/002629) and We acknowledge the Nanotechnology Research Centre (NRC), SRMIST for providing the research facilities. We thank SRIHER (DU) for providing research facilities.

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  1. Nanophotonics Research Laboratory, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India

    Betty Lincoln & Annie Sujatha

  2. Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, SRIHER(DU), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Betty Lincoln

  3. School of Interdisciplinary Design and Innovation (SIDI), Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM) Kancheepuram, Chennai, 600127, India

    PandiyarasanVeluswamy

  4. Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, 3-Johoku, Naka Ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, 432-8011, Japan

    Hiroya Ikeda

  5. Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India

    Abhijit Majumdar

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BL: conceptualization, methodology, writing—original draft preparation. AS: supervision, writing—reviewing and editing. PV: visualization, validation, writing—reviewing and editing. HI: technical support, writing—reviewing and editing. AM: data curation and analysis.

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Lincoln, B., Sujatha, A., PandiyarasanVeluswamy et al. Smart Fabric Based Wearable Thermoelectric Device with UV Blocking and Antibacterial Capability for Energy Harvesting Applications. Braz J Phys 54, 36 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-023-01409-3

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