1. A Highly Elastic and Reversibly Stretchable All‐Polymer Supercapacitor.
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Wang, Yukun, Chen, Feng, Liu, Zhuoxin, Tang, Zijie, Yang, Qi, Zhao, Yan, Du, Shanyi, Chen, Qiang, and Zhi, Chunyi
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CONDUCTING polymer films , *POLYMER electrodes , *CONDUCTING polymers , *POLYPYRROLE , *SUPERCAPACITORS - Abstract
Multiple stretchability has never been demonstrated as supercapacitors because the hydrogel used cannot fully recover after being heavily deformed. Now, a highly reversibly stretchable all‐polymer supercapacitor was fabricated using a developed double network hydrogel (DN hydrogel) as electrolyte and pure polypyrrole (PPy) as electrode. The DN hydrogel provides excellent mechanical properties, which can be stretched up to 500 % many times and then restore almost 100 % of the original length. To fabricate the fully recoverable stretchable supercapacitor, we annealed a free‐standing pure conducting polymer film as electrode so that the electrodes induced retardance is minimized. The as‐fabricated DN hydrogel/pure conducting polymer supercapacitors can be perfectly recovered from 100 % strain with almost no residual deformation left and the electrochemical performance can be maintained even after 1000 stretches (but not bending). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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