Fabric That Can Help You Recharge Phones

Japanese researchers have created solar-cell fabric that can harness the energy while on the go. The new fabric is made of wafer-thin solar cells woven together that could see people powering up their mobile phones and other electronics with their sweater or trousers. But its creators conceded that there is still work to do before taking the fabric to market. solar nano-fabric The fabric is the brain child of Japan Sphelar Power and this will act as a personal solar cell, which will enable you to charge your mobile phones and tablets. As the picture shows, there are tiny solar cells woven into a piece of fabric. The company says that it needs some time to make the fabric ready for commercial use. Work is already in progress on the coating of the wires and improving the overall durability of the fabric. "We still have things to solve before commercialization  such as coating for the conductive wires and improving the fabric's durability," said an official at the Industrial Technology Center in central Japan's Fukui Prefecture.

"But we've already been contacted by electronics makers, blind makers and others who showed interested in our invention." The centre developed the fabric with a Kyoto-based solar cell maker and other private firms, the official said. Solar power generation is attracting renewed attention in Japan as the country looks at alternative energy sources in the aftermath of last year's tsunami-sparked atomic crisis, the worst nuclear accident in a generation.