Omnidirectionally Stretchable High-Performance Supercapacitor Based on Isotropic Buckled Carbon Nanotube Films.
The emergence of stretchable electronic devices has attracted intensive attention. However, most of the existing stretchable electronic devices can generally be stretched only in one specific direction and show limited specific capacitance and energy density. Here, we report a stretchable isotropic buckled carbon nanotube (CNT) film, which is used as electrodes for supercapacitors with low sheet resistance, high omnidirectional stretchability, and electro-mechanical stability under repeated stretching. After acid treatment of the CNT film followed by electrochemical deposition of polyaniline (PANI), the resulting isotropic buckled acid treated CNT@PANI electrode exhibits high specific capacitance of 1147.12 mF cm(-2) at 10 mV s(-1). The supercapacitor possesses high energy density from 31.56 to 50.98 μWh cm(-2) and corresponding power density changing from 2.294 to 28.404 mW cm(-2) at the scan rate from 10 to 200 mV s(-1). Also, the supercapacitor can sustain an omnidirectional strain of 200%, which is twice the maximum strain of biaxially stretchable supercapacitors based on CNT assemblies reported in the literature. Moreover, the capacitive performance is even enhanced to 1160.43-1230.61 mF cm(-2) during uniaxial, biaxial, and omnidirectional elongations.
School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001, P.R. China.
Jiali
J
Yu
Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics , Suzhou 215123, P. R. China.
Weibang
W
Lu
Shaopeng
S
Pei
Ke
K
Gong
Liyun
L
Wang
School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001, P.R. China.
Linghui
L
Meng
School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001, P.R. China.
Yudong
Y
Huang
Joseph P
JP
Smith
Karl S
KS
Booksh
Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics , Suzhou 215123, P. R. China.
Qingwen
Q
Li
Composites Research Center, Korean Institute of Materials Science , Changwon 641831, South Korea.
Joon-Hyung
JH
Byun
Composites Research Center, Korean Institute of Materials Science , Changwon 641831, South Korea.
Youngseok
Y
Oh
Yushan
Y
Yan
Tsu-Wei
TW
Chou
carbon nanotubes; floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition; isotropic buckling; omnidirectional stretchability; pseudocapacitance; supercapacitors