Twisted and coiled yarns for energy harvesting and storage, artificial muscles, refrigeration, and sensing
Abstract
This overview focuses on our teams work on using twisted yarns and highly elastic coiled yarns for artificial muscles, energy harvesting, energy storage, sensing, and refrigeration. Despite the diversity of these applications for coiled carbon nanotube and polymer yarns, similar fabrication methods are applicable and conversion of coiling twist to yarn twist results in yarn elasticity, actuation, twistocaloric cooling, and the capacitance changes used for energy harvesting and sensing. Likewise, the same biscrolling method yields coiled yarns containing up to 95 weight percent of guest powders that provide various new properties. The obtained performance of the coiled polymer and carbon nanotube yarns are remarkable, such as artificial muscles that generate up to 98 times the output mechanical power than the maximum for the same weight human muscle and mechanical energy harvesters providing a higher peak electrical power per weight than prior art material-based mechanical energy harvesters for stretch frequencies between a few Hz and 600 Hz.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 29, 2022
- Source ID
- 10.1177/00219983221143227
Entities
People
- Ray H. Baughman
- Zhong Wang
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Swedish Energy Agency
- University of Texas at Dallas