Textenergy

Energy capture and storage in textiles

In the Texenergie project, we are investigating the capture and storage function of energy in textiles together with a number of project partners. We then look at how we can integrate workable forms of capture and storage in textiles. By developing various working demonstrators from this, we establish the relationship to practical application and industrial producibility.

Together with our partners, we have the ambition to achieve an absolute breakthrough in textile technology. Solar cells and energy storage in the intended form of co-woven threads makes textiles a completely new functional material with enormous application possibilities. It is clear that we have to solve major technical bottlenecks in this. With this project, we are developing knowledge together with Avans that leads to new product initiatives in companies and state-of-art cases for education. With this project we lay the foundation for new product innovations by integrating autonomous energy supply in textiles.

Partners Texenergie

Thales, Phillips research, Bonar, Artex, Teijin Aramid, Polyned, Modint, De Berkel, Johan van den Acker, DPI-Value centre, TenCate, OICAM, the Saxion research group Sustainable & Functional Textiles, Industrial Design, Mechatronics, Ambient Intelligence and Nanotechnology and the Avans lectureship Solar production technology and equipment development.

Duration

Texenergie runs from September 2015 to September 2019.

Project website, more information/contact

More information can be found on the project website.

You can also contact Jan Mahy (lecturer Sustainable & Functional Textiles) or Eliza Bottenberg, project leader.

This research was co-financed by the National Taskforce for Applied Research SIA (part of NWO).