Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 10157-10164Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b01128
Keywords
biomimetric fabrication; microfiber; flexible; on-chip; microsupercapacitor
Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFA0202900]
- National Science Foundation of China [51672173]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Committee [17JC1400700]
- Science & Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2016A010103018]
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The miniaturization of portable electronic devices has fueled the development of microsupercapacitors that hold great potential to complement or even replace microbatteries and electrolytic capacitors. In spite of recent developments taking advantage of printing and lithography, it remains a great challenge to attain a high energy density without sacrificing the power density. Herein, a new protocol mimicking the spider's spinning process is developed to create highly oriented microfibers from graphene-based composites via a purpose-designed microfluidic chip. The orientation provides the microfibers with an electrical conductivity of similar to 3 x 10(4) S m(-1), which leads to a high power density; the energy density is sustained by nanocarbons and high-purity metallic molybdenum disulfide. The microfibers are patterned in-plane to fabricate asymmetric microsupercapacitors for flexible and on-chip energy storage. The on-chip microsupercapacitor with a high pattern resolution of 100 mu m delivers energy density up to the order of 10(-2) W h cm(-3) and retains an ultrahigh power density exceeding 100 W cm(-3) in an aqueous electrolyte. This work provides new design of flexible and on-chip asymmetric microsupercapacitors based on microfibers. The unique biomimetic microfluidic fabrication of graphene microfibers for energy storage may also stimulate thinking of the bionic design in many other fields.
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