Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201800124
Keywords
conductive polymer; fibrous supercapacitor; hybrid hydrogel; self-assembly; stretchable
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [NSF-CMMI-1537894]
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21777108]
- Sloan Research Fellowship
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Nanostructured conductive polymer hydrogels (CPHs) have been extensively applied in energy storage owing to their advantageous features, such as excellent electrochemical activity and relatively high electrical conductivity, yet the fabrication of self-standing and flexible electrode-based CPHs is still hampered by their limited mechanical properties. Herein, macromolecularly interconnected 3D graphene/nanostructured CPH is synthesized via self-assembly of CPHs and graphene oxide macrostructures. The 3D hybrid hydrogel shows uniform interconnectivity and enhanced mechanical properties due to the strong macromolecular interaction between the CPHs and graphene, thus greatly reducing aggregation in the fiber-shaping process. A proof-of-concept all-gel-state fibrous supercapacitor based on the 3D polyaniline/graphene hydrogel is fabricated to demonstrate the outstanding flexibility and mouldability, as well as superior electrochemical properties enabled by this 3D hybrid hydrogel design. The proposed device can achieve a large strain (up to approximate to 40%), and deliver a remarkable volumetric energy density of 8.80 mWh cm(-3) (at power density of 30.77 mW cm(-3)), outperforming many fiber-shaped supercapacitors reported previously. The all-hydrogel design opens up opportunities in the fabrication of next-generation wearable and portable electronics.
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