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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 636, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.128145
Keywords
Stretchability; Gelatin; Polypyrrole; All-in-one; Supercapacitors
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- Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province, China [SJCX21_0341]
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Novel conductive hydrogels with a sandwich-like structure are reported in this study, showing skin-like stretchable and high conductivity under various deformations. The hydrogels exhibit exceptional specific capacitance, high energy density, and promising cyclic stability, making them suitable for flexible supercapacitors.
Conductive polymeric hydrogels have aroused growing attentions for their promising applications in wearable electronics. It is still necessary to harmonize their mechanical and electrochemical properties for the real applications. Here we report novel conductive hydrogels with a sandwich-like structure, in which gelatin/polyacrylamide (Gel/PAAM) double network are served as robust scaffold and polypyrrole (PPy) nanoclusters were firmly embedded in the two sides of the Gel/PAAM hydrogel. The obtained Gel/PAAM/PPy hydrogels have shown a skin-like stretchable and high conductivity under various deformations. Significantly, the PPy content in the Gel/PAAM/PPy hydrogels can be easily regulated for the use in flexible all-in-one supercapacitors (SCs). The optimized device showed an exceptional specific capacitance of 363.75 mF/cm(2), a high energy density of 32.33 mu W h/cm(2) at power density of 400 mu W/cm(2), as well as a promising cyclic stability of 82% capacitance retention after 2000 cycles. Besides, the working potential window and output current density can be extended by assembling the single SC into series and parallel connection. What' more, the device possesses very stable electrochemical performance under bending, compressing, stretching conditions and even after healing process. This work proposes a feasible approach for preparation of novel PPy-based conductive hydrogels that might provide a viable source for all-flexible electronic devices.
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