Inspired by the sophisticated artificial leather garment industry and toward enhancing wearability of energy storage devices, we demonstrate a polyurethane artificial leather supercapacitor with large sheet electrodes embedded in the leather layer simultaneously working as a polyelectrolyte. This design totally reserves textiles underneath and thus addresses the well-known challenge of wearing comfortability. It provides a revolutionary configuration of wearable supercapacitors: the artificial leather on garment is also a supercapacitor. Unlike the polyvinyl alcohol-based acidic electrolytes, which are widely used, sodium chloride is used to modify the intrinsically fluorescent polyurethane leather for ionic transportation, which has no harm to human. The fluorescent leather supercapacitor is easily transferrable from any arbitrary substrates to form various patterns, enabling multifunctionalities of practical wearability, fashion, and energy storage.

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受先进的人造皮革制衣业的启发，并致力于提高能量存储设备的耐磨性，我们展示了一种聚氨酯人造皮革超级电容器，该电容器具有嵌入皮革层中的大片状电极，同时可以用作聚电解质。这种设计完全保留了下面的纺织品，从而解决了穿着舒适性的众所周知的挑战。它提供了可穿戴式超级电容器的革命性配置：衣服上的人造皮革也是超级电容器。与广泛使用的基于聚乙烯醇的酸性电解质不同，氯化钠用于修饰本质上荧光的聚氨酯皮革，用于离子运输，而对人体无害。

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