TOKYO: Clothes that could
literally light up your life were unveiled Tuesday by Japanese researchers who
said their solar-cell fabric would eventually let wearers harvest energy on the
go.
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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 there was work to do
before taking the fabric to market.
"We still have things to solve before
commercialisation, 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 to alternative energy sources in the
aftermath of last year's tsunami-sparked atomic crisis, the worst nuclear
accident in a generation.
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