title: Towards textile energy storage from cotton T-shirts.
abstract: A simple chemical activation route is developed to convert insulating cotton T-shirt textiles into highly conductive and flexible activated carbon textiles (ACTs) for energy-storage applications. Such conversion gives these ACTs an ideal electrical double-layer capacitive behavior. The constructed asymmetric supercapacitors based on the ACTs and MnO(2)/ACT composite show superior electrochemical performances.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 29208, USA.
authors.forename: Lihong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D003020:Clothing; D032561:Cotton Fiber; D025802:Electric Capacitance; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004563:Electrochemistry; D017895:Manganese Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry; D010087:Oxides / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D017895:Manganese Compounds; D010087:Oxides; C027424:manganese oxide; D002244:Carbon