Carbon Nanotube Based Fiber Supercapacitor as Wearable Energy Storage

Energy storage is a key requirement for the emerging wearable technologies. Recent

progress in this direction includes the development of fiber based batteries and

capacitors and even some examples of such fibers incorporated into prototype textiles.

Herein we discuss the advantages of using the wet-spinning process to create

nanostructured carbon basedmaterials as wearable energy storage. The ability to control

the physical, mechanical, electrical, and electrochemical properties of carbon nanotube

based fibers holds great promise to develop smart polymeric structure as an energy

storing materials including fibers and textiles. This is the first comprehensive review to

discuss effect of nanostructured energy materials on the electrochemical properties of

carbon nanotube based fibers which covers the various compositions, spinning and

fabrication conditions on the performance of wearable energy storage.