View all research projects
Research project

Energy Harvesting Materials for Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textiles

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Stephen Beeby PhD, FIEEE, FInstP, FIET, CEng, CPhys

Professor of Electronic Systems & Device

Research interests

  • Electronic Textiles
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Smart Materials
Connect with Stephen

Email: spb@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles (C-FLEET)

The Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles (C-FLEET) is a centre of expertise for flexible smart materials, printed electronics and electronic textile technologies. We work with industry, policy makers, and the general public to address both national and global challenges.

Smart Electronic Materials and Systems

Our interests range from nano-scale biological sensors to complete sensor systems.

Research outputs

Textile-based flexible coils for wireless inductive power transmission
Yi Li, Neil Grabham, Russel Torah, M John Tudor & Steve Beeby, 2018, Applied Sciences, 8(6), 1-19
DOI: 10.3390/app8060912
Type: article
Flexible piezoelectric nano-composite films for kinetic energy harvesting from textiles
Ahmed Almusallam, Jerry Luo, Abiodun Komolafe, Kai Yang, Andrew Robinson, Russel Torah & Stephen Beeby, 2017, Nano Energy, 33, 146-156
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.01.037
Type: article
Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications
Sasikumar Arumugam, Yi Li, Senthilarasu Sundaram, Russel Torah, Alexander Kanibolotsky, Anto Inigo, Peter Skabara & Steve Beeby, 2016, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(15), 5561-5568
DOI: 10.1039/C5TA03389F
Type: article
Exploring screen printing technology on thermoelectric energy harvesting with printing copper-nickel and bismuth-antimony thermocouples
Z. Cao, E. Koukharenko, R.N. Torah & S.P. Beeby, 2013
DOI: 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6626807
Type: conference