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As a new energy storage device, supercapacitor (or electrochemical capacitor) has an ultra-long cycle life, extremely high power density and enhanced energy density. It fills the gap in the energy-power spectrum between traditional capacitor and battery. In general, the traditional energy storage and conversion device cannot have a perfect trade-off between high energy density and high power density. With the rapid development of modern society, developing light, portable, safe and environmentally friendly high-performance energy storage devices has become increasingly vital. Therefore, there are numerous researches of flexible solid supercapacitors emerging at this historic moment. The selection of flexible electrode materials and that of electrolytes are crucial factors in designing the flexible solid state supercapacitors, which have been the research hotspots in recent years. Carbon nanotube array has been widely used in electrode material of super capacitors due to its excellent electrical conductivity, large specific surface area and super high chemical stability. But in assembly process, carbon nanotube array easily collapses and breaks its neat orientation because of its poor mechanical strength. In consideration of environmental contamination and practical demands, in this paper the neutral gel electrolyte is adopted to embed carbon nanotube array to form flexible composite film electrode. Besides the fact that we use hydrophilic flexible carbon cloth as current collector and neutral gel electrolyte as separator to prepare flexible devices, we compare the electrochemical properties among different devices by changing the electrolyte salt added in gel electrolyte. Meanwhile, after continuous bending and folding, the properties of flexible devices have not been significantly damaged, indicating good flexibility and mechanical stability. The specific capacity of the whole device with PVA-NaCl used as gel electrolyte increases up to 104.5 mF·cm–3, which is much higher than the specific capacity of the composite device formed by organic ionic gels with carbon nanotube array and that of the composite device formed by commercial short carbon nanotubes with hydrogels. A maximum energy density of 0.034 mW·h·cm–3 is obtained at the same time. In addition, it has good rate performance, cycling stability, suppressing self-discharge property, and good chemical stability at a high voltage of 1.6 V. Neutral gel/carbon nanotube array composite devices not only meet the needs of the era of green safety, flexible and portable folding, but also open up the future application prospects of medical implants.
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Keywords:
- neutral hydrogel /
- carbon nanotube array /
- solid state /
- supercapacitor
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图 1 (a)垂直取向碳纳米管阵列SEM图; (b)水凝胶包埋后碳管阵列图
Figure 1. (a) Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of CNTA; (b) SEM image of CNTA after hydrogel embedding.
图 3 PVA-CH3COONa/CNTA复合器件的电化学性能测试 (a) 10−200 mV/s扫速下循环伏安曲线(CV); (b)不同扫速下的瞬时电容图; (c) 0.51−10.2 mA·cm–3不同电流密度下的恒流充放电曲线(GCD); (d)比电容随电流密度变化图; (e) 0.01−100k Hz频率下器件EIS; (f)5000次循环充放电下器件稳定图
Figure 3. Electrochemical performance test of PVA-CH3COONa/CNTA composite device: (a) CV curves at different scan rates ranging from 10 to 200 mV/s; (b) instantaneous capacitance diagram at different scan rates; (c) galvanostatic charge-discharge (GCD) curves at different current densities (0.51–10.2 mA·cm–3); (d) evolution of specific capacitance versus current density; (e) Nyquist plot of the device at a frequency range from 0.01 to 100k Hz; (f) cyclic stability of the device during 5000 charging-discharging cycles.
图 4 (a)柔性器件图; (b)和(c)为弯曲前后器件图; (d)弯曲80次前后器件CV曲线对比图
Figure 4. (a)−(c) The original flexible device, bend and recovery processes, respectively; (d) CV curves comparison of the flexible device before and after being bent over 80 times at 50 mV/s scan rate.
图 2 中性水凝胶复合碳纳米管阵列柔性固态超级电容器的制备流程图
Figure 2. Schematic of the fabrication of neutral hydrogel/CNTA composite flexible solid state supercapacitor.
图 5 (a) 50 mV/s扫速下CV对比图; (b) 5.1 mA·cm–3电流密度下GCD对比图; (c) EIS对比图; (d)能量-功率密度对比图; (e) 5000次循环稳定性对比图
Figure 5. Comparison of electrochemical properties of different neutral gel/CNTA composite devices: (a) CV comparison diagram at 50 mV/s scan rate; (b) GCD comparison diagram at 5.1 mA·cm–3 current density; (c) EIS Nyquist plots obtained from the electrochemical impedance test for different samples; (d) Ragone plots of the different samples; (e) the cyclic performances of the different samples for 5000 cycles.
图 6 PVA-NaCl/CNTA和PVA-NaCl/CCNT复合器件的电化学性能测试对比 (a) 50 mV/s扫速下CV对比图; (b) 0.69 mA·cm–2电流密度下GCD对比图; (c)比电容随电流密度变化图; (d)高频下EIS对比图
Figure 6. Comparison of electrochemical properties of PVA-NaCl/CNTA and PVA-NaCl/CCNT composite devices: (a) CV comparison diagram at 50 mV/s scan rate; (b) GCD comparison diagram at 0.69 mA·cm–2 current density; (c) diagram of specific capacitance changing with current density; (d) EIS comparison diagram at high frequency.
图 7 PVA-NaCl/CNTA复合器件的电化学性能测试 (a) 50 mV/s扫速下0.8−1.6 V不同电压范围内CV曲线图; (b) 10−200 mV/s扫速下高电位CV曲线图; (c) 分别基于取向阵列和碳管粉末的器件自放电对比图
Figure 7. Electrochemical performance test of PVA-NaCl/CNTA composite device: (a) CV curves in different voltages ranging from 0.8 to 1.6 V at 50 mV/s scan rate; (b) high-potential CV curves over the scan rates ranging from 10 to 200 mV/s; (c) self-discharge comparison diagram based on CNTA and CCNT respectively.
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Google Scholar
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