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, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study, and Key Laboratory of Green and High-End Utilization of Salt Lake Resources (Chinese Academy of Sciences) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His research centers on fiber electronics and energy storage devices.

Zhibin Yang, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His current research focuses on perovskite solar cells and wearable electronics.

Longbin Qiu, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology, China. His current interests focus on the scalable and stable perovskite solar modules, as well as flexible and wearable electronics.

Huisheng Peng, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials at Fudan University, China. His research focuses on fiber electronics.