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Highly Stretchable and Conductive Hybrid Fibers for High-performance Fibrous Electrodes and All-solid-state Supercapacitors

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The development of lightweight, flexible, and stretchable energy storage systems is essential for state-of-the-art electronic devices. We propose a new and broad strategy to fabricate a stretchable and conductive GO/CNTs-TPU fiber electrode by direct wet spinning, from which a flexible fibrous supercapacitor is fabricated. The fibrous electrode exhibits a high strength of 11.68 MPa, high conductivity of 342 S/cm, and high specific capacitances (21.8 mF/cm, 36.45 F/cm3, and 95 F/g). The specific capacitance of the assembled all-solid-state hybrid fiber-shaped supercapacitor reaches 14.3 F/cm3. After 5000 charge-discharge cycles, 97% of the capacitance of the hybrid supercapacitor is maintained. These high-strength electrochemical electrode materials could be potential candidates for applications in practical and large-scale energy storage systems and textile clothes.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2232019A3-02), DHU Distinguished Young Professor Program (No. LZB2019002), and Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (No. 2017QNRC001). J. L. acknowledges funding provided by the Donghua University Doctoral Innovation Fund Program (Nos. 17D310606, 106-06-0019058).

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Gui-Qing Wu, Xin-Yu Yang, Jia-Hui Li, Nan Sheng, Cheng-Yi Hou, Yao-Gang Li & Hong-Zhi Wang

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore, Singapore

    Jia-Hui Li

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Wu, GQ., Yang, XY., Li, JH. et al. Highly Stretchable and Conductive Hybrid Fibers for High-performance Fibrous Electrodes and All-solid-state Supercapacitors. Chin J Polym Sci 38, 531–539 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-020-2381-2

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