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Vol. 16 (2024)

MXene Enhanced 3D Needled Waste Denim Felt for High-Performance Flexible Supercapacitors

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01226-y
Wei Fan
Key Laboratory of Functional Textile Material and Product of the Ministry of Education, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Institute of Flexible electronics and Intelligent Textile, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an 710048, People’s Republic of China
Qi Wang
Key Laboratory of Functional Textile Material and Product of the Ministry of Education, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Institute of Flexible electronics and Intelligent Textile, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an 710048, People’s Republic of China
Kai Rong
Key Laboratory of Functional Textile Material and Product of the Ministry of Education, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Institute of Flexible electronics and Intelligent Textile, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an 710048, People’s Republic of China
Yang Shi
Co‑Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, People’s Republic of China
Wanxi Peng
Henan Province International Collaboration Lab of Forest Resources Utilization, School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, People’s Republic of China
Handong Li
Integrated Composites Lab, Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Zhanhu Guo
Integrated Composites Lab, Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Ben Bin Xu
Integrated Composites Lab, Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Hua Hou
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, People’s Republic of China
Hassan Algadi
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Najran University, 11001 Najran, Saudi Arabia
Shengbo Ge
Co‑Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Shengbo Ge

geshengbo@njfu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 16 (2024), Article Number: 36

Abstract

MXene, a transition metal carbide/nitride, has been prominent as an ideal electrochemical active material for supercapacitors. However, the low MXene load limits its practical applications. As environmental concerns and sustainable development become more widely recognized, it is necessary to explore a greener and cleaner technology to recycle textile by-products such as cotton. The present study proposes an effective 3D fabrication method that uses MXene to fabricate waste denim felt into ultralight and flexible supercapacitors through needling and carbonization. The 3D structure provided more sites for loading MXene onto Z-directional fiber bundles, resulting in more efficient ion exchange between the electrolyte and electrodes. Furthermore, the carbonization process removed the specific adverse groups in MXenes, further improving the specific capacitance, energy density, power density and electrical conductivity of supercapacitors. The electrodes achieve a maximum specific capacitance of 1748.5 mF cm−2 and demonstrate remarkable cycling stability maintaining more than 94% after 15,000 galvanostatic charge/discharge cycles. Besides, the obtained supercapacitors present a maximum specific capacitance of 577.5 mF cm−2, energy density of 80.2 μWh cm−2 and power density of 3 mW cm−2, respectively. The resulting supercapacitors can be used to develop smart wearable power devices such as smartwatches, laying the foundation for a novel strategy of utilizing waste cotton in a high-quality manner.


Highlights:
1 An ultralight and flexible supercapacitor is developed by an effective 3D fabrication method that uses MXene to fabricate waste denim felt through needling and carbonization.
2 The electrodes have a maximum specific capacitance of 1748.5 mF cm−2 and demonstrate remarkable cycling stability with more than 94% after 15,000 galvanostatic charge/discharge cycles
3 The loaded more MXene onto Z-directional fiber bundles results in enhanced specific capacitance, energy density and power density of supercapacitors.

Keywords

MXene 3D needled waste denim felt Supercapacitors Carbonization
Fan, Wei, Qi Wang, Kai Rong, Yang Shi, Wanxi Peng, Handong Li, Zhanhu Guo, Ben Bin Xu, Hua Hou, Hassan Algadi, and Shengbo Ge. 2023. “MXene Enhanced 3D Needled Waste Denim Felt for High-Performance Flexible Supercapacitors”. Nano-Micro Letters 16 (November):36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01226-y.
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