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Nanocellulose-Assisted Construction of Multifunctional MXene-Based Aerogels with Engineering Biomimetic Texture for Pressure Sensor and Compressible Electrode

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01073-x
Ting Xu
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Qun Song
Sustainable Materials and Chemistry, Department of Wood Technology and Wood‑Based Composites, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Kun Liu
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Huayu Liu
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Junjie Pan
Sustainable Materials and Chemistry, Department of Wood Technology and Wood‑Based Composites, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Wei Liu
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Lin Dai
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Meng Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Yaxuan Wang
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Chuanling Si
State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, People’s Republic of China
Haishun Du
Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Kai Zhang
Sustainable Materials and Chemistry, Department of Wood Technology and Wood‑Based Composites, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

Corresponding Author: Kai Zhang

kai.zhang@uni-goettingen.de

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 15 (2023), Article Number: 98

Abstract

Multifunctional architecture with intriguing structural design is highly desired for realizing the promising performances in wearable sensors and flexible energy storage devices. Cellulose nanofiber (CNF) is employed for assisting in building conductive, hyperelastic, and ultralight Ti3C2Tx MXene hybrid aerogels with oriented tracheid-like texture. The biomimetic hybrid aerogels are constructed by a facile bidirectional freezing strategy with CNF, carbon nanotube (CNT), and MXene based on synergistic electrostatic interaction and hydrogen bonding. Entangled CNF and CNT “mortars” bonded with MXene “bricks” of the tracheid structure produce good interfacial binding, and superior mechanical strength (up to 80% compressibility and extraordinary fatigue resistance of 1000 cycles at 50% strain). Benefiting from the biomimetic texture, CNF/CNT/MXene aerogel shows ultralow density of 7.48 mg cm−3 and excellent electrical conductivity (~ 2400 S m−1). Used as pressure sensors, such aerogels exhibit appealing sensitivity performance with the linear sensitivity up to 817.3 kPa−1, which affords their application in monitoring body surface information and detecting human motion. Furthermore, the aerogels can also act as electrode materials of compressive solid-state supercapacitors that reveal satisfactory electrochemical performance (849.2 mF cm−2 at 0.8 mA cm−2) and superior long cycle compression performance (88% after 10,000 cycles at a compressive strain of 30%).


Highlights:


1 Hyperelastic and superlight multifunctional MXene/nanocellulose composite aerogels with high conductivity are designed by constructing biomimetic texture.
2 The MXene/nanocellulose aerogels as flexible pressure sensors exhibit appealing linear sensitivity performance (817.3 kPa−1).
3 The as-prepared compressible supercapacitor with MXene/nanocellulose electrodes reveals superior electrochemical performance (849.2 mF cm−2 at 0.8 mA cm−2).

Keywords

Nanocellulose Aerogels MXene Supercapacitors Pressure sensors
Xu, Ting, Qun Song, Kun Liu, Huayu Liu, Junjie Pan, Wei Liu, Lin Dai, Meng Zhang, Yaxuan Wang, Chuanling Si, Haishun Du, and Kai Zhang. 2023. “Nanocellulose-Assisted Construction of Multifunctional MXene-Based Aerogels With Engineering Biomimetic Texture for Pressure Sensor and Compressible Electrode”. Nano-Micro Letters 15 (April):98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01073-x.
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