受北卡罗莱纳州立大学Nazire Deniz Yilmaz博士邀请，熊佳庆教授联合南洋理工大学Pooi See Lee教授为书籍《Smart Nanotextiles: Wearable and Technical Applications》编写了题为“Smart Nanotextiles for Energy Generation”的第8章内容，书籍于近期由Wiley在线出版。该系列书籍2018年出版的第一版《Smart textiles: wearable nanotechnology》中的同一章节内容“Nanogenerators for Smart Textiles”为王中林院士团队负责撰写。我们很荣幸受邀参与该书籍第二版的编写工作。

Textile is one of the ideal substrates for function integration to develop wearable electronics. The practical application of soft electronics and smart clothes relies on soft energy harvesters as power sources. With the pursuit of practicality and aesthetics, comfortable and washable power sources are desired to replace rigid and bulky batteries with a limited lifetime and potential contamination for the environment. Tremendous research efforts have been devoted to developing selfpowered textiles for converting ambient thermal/mechanical energy into electricity, or capable of storing the energy for sustainable and friendly use. Nanotextiles, consisting of nanofibers, or daily fabrics/textiles decorated by nanostructures, showing excellent flexibility and breathability because of their intrinsic softness and high porosity, serve well as carriers or components of nanogenerators for smart wearable electronics. This chapter focuses on the progress of nanotextile-based thermoelectric, piezoelectric, and triboelectric nanogenerators for energy harvesting from human body and environment. Their applications in power sources, self-powered sensors, and hybrid platforms for energy harvesting and storage have been summarized, providing a perspective on performance enhancement and multiscenario application of nanotextiles for the self-powered wearable technology. 

Keywords: Smart fibers/textiles, thermoelectric generator, piezoelectric nanogenerator, triboelectric nanogenerator, energy harvesting, self-powered sensing