Wearable Solar Cells: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices

Wearable Solar Cells

Understand a groundbreaking new energy technology

Solar energy is one of the most important paths to a sustainable future. In recent years, extensive research and development has begun to produce wearable solar cells, whose novel planar and fiber format gives them enormous flexibility and a wide range of potential uses. The possibility of a solar energy source that can be fitted to the human body promises to become an extraordinary tool for meeting various kinds of personal energy needs.

Wearable Solar Cells: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices serves as a comprehensive introduction to this cutting-edge technology and its applications. Recent research pointing towards fiber-format solar cells as a bold new frontier is summarized and explored. The result is an essential resource for both experienced researchers and newcomers to the field.

Wearable Solar Cells readers will also find:

• Close coverage of integrated energy harvesting and storage devices
• Detailed discussion of dye-sensitized solar cells, polymer solar cells, perovskite solar cells, and more
• An authorial team with decades of combined research experience

Wearable Solar Cells is ideal for materials scientists, polymer chemists, electrical engineers, solid-state physicists, and advanced students interested in these and related topics.

Hao Sun is currently Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph. D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics at Fudan University, China in 2017, and worked at Stanford University as a Postdoc Fellow during 2017-2020. His research centers on multifunction and integration of fiber-shaped energy harvesting and storage devices, and safe and high-performance battery systems. He has received scientific awards including Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award and Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions Silver Medal.
Zhibin Yang is Associate Professor in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received bachelor’s degree from East China University of Science and Technology in 2009 and Ph.D. from Fudan University in 2014. Between 2014-2019, he conducted his postdoctoral research in University of Washington and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, successively. His current research focuses on perovskite solar cells and wearable electronics.
Longbin Qiu is Assistant Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology, China. He received his bachelor’s degree (2011) and Ph.D. (2016) from Sun Yat-sen University and Fudan University, respectively. He conducted his postdoctoral research in Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan during 2016-2020. His current interests focus on the scalable and stable perovskite solar modules, as well as flexible and wearable electronics.
Professor Huisheng Peng received his BEng in Polymer Materials from Donghua University in China in 1999, MSc in Polymer Science from Fudan University in 2003 and PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from Tulane University in USA in 2006. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, from 2006 to 2008. He has been appointed as Professor in Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials at Fudan University since 2008 and become University Professor since 2019. He is recognized as a pioneer of fiber electronics, an interface direction of chemistry, physics, biology, energy and engineering. He and co-workers have invented a new family of soft fiber energy harvesting devices including perovskite solar cells and fluidic generators, fiber energy storage devices including lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries and metal-air batteries, fiber light-emitting devices, fiber chips and fiber biosensors. Professor Peng has published over 290 peer-reviewed papers and 4 books. He obtains 74 issued patents with 34 royally transferred to the industry for commercialization. He has received over 30 awards including National Natural Science Award of China. He also serves as editor and editorial board member for over 10 journals such as Advanced Functional Materials.