A Facile, Fabric Compatible, and Flexible Borophene Nanocomposites for Self-Powered Smart Assistive and Wound Healing Applications.

ABSTRACT: Smart fabrics that can harvest ambient energy and provide diverse sensing functionality via triboelectric effects have evoked great interest for next-generation healthcare electronics. Herein, a novel borophene/ecoflex nanocomposite is developed as a promising triboelectric material with tailorability, durability, mechanical stability, and flexibility. The addition of borophene nanosheets enables the borophene/ecoflex nanocomposite to exhibit tunable surface triboelectricity investigated by Kelvin probe force microscopy. The borophene/ecoflex nanocomposite is further fabricated into a fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerator (B-TENG) for mechanical energy harvesting, medical assistive system, and wound healing applications. The durability of B-TENG provides consistent output performance ev

SUBMITTER: Chen SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9353498 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature