RESEARCH ARTICLE
Flexible liquid metal coil prepared for electromagnetic energy harvesting and wireless charging
. China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing 100192, China.. Vehicle Engineering, College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; Tianjin Microfluidic Technology Co., Ltd., Tianjin 300457, China
录用日期：
2019-06-06
发布日期：
2019-06-06
摘要
This paper reported a study on a flexible liquid metal coil (LMC) for electromagnetic collection from the transmission line for self-powered sensor and electromagnetic generation for wireless charging of cellular telephone. The room temperature liquid metal of Galinstan was perfused to elastic silicone tube, which is then terminated with gallium-plated copper wire. The as-prepared liquid metal wire can sustain stretching, twisting, and bending with large deformation, and has a good electrical contact stability with the external circuit. The LMC based magnetic energy harvester was then designed and demonstrated to collect the magnetic field energy induced by a wire carrying alternating current. The power of 260 mW was obtained for the wire carrying current of 10 A. The flexible toroidal inductor was fabricated and tested for magnetic energy harvesting. The flexible spiral-shaped LMC was also designed and demonstrated to power cellular telephone through wireless charging. The present study opens the way for further applications of elastic LMC in electromagnetic energy harvesting and charging.
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