Abstract

Merging electronics with textiles has become an emerging trend since textiles hold magnificent wearing comfort and user-friendliness compared with conventional wearable bioelectronics. Smart textiles can be effectively integrated into our daily wearing to convert on-body biomechanical, biochemical, and body heat energy into electrical signals for long-term, real-time monitoring of physiological states, showing compelling medical and economic benefits. This review summarizes the current progress in self-powered biomonitoring textiles along three pathways: biomechanical, body heat, and biochemical energy conversion. Finally, it also presents promising directions and challenges in the field, as well as insights into future development. This review aims to highlight the frontiers of smart textiles for self-powered biomonitoring, which could contribute to revolutionizing our traditional healthcare into a personalized model.

Highlights

• Self-powered biomonitoring textiles via biomechanical, body heat, and biochemical energy conversion are discussed.

• Platform technologies, including PENG, TENG, MEG, TEG and BFC are systematically introduced.

• Self-powered biomonitoring textiles pave a compelling road to personalized healthcare