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Vol. 10 No. 3 (2018)

Toward Enhancing Wearability and Fashion of Wearable Supercapacitor with Modified Polyurethane Artificial Leather Electrolyte

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-018-0191-7
Yan Huang
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, People’s Republic of China
Zijie Tang
Department of Materials Science and Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
Zhuoxin Liu
Department of Materials Science and Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
Jun Wei
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, 73 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, Singapore
Hong Hu
Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 11 Hong Chong Road, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
Chunyi Zhi
Department of Materials Science and Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Chunyi Zhi

cy.zhi@cityu.edu.hk

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 10 No. 3 (2018), Article Number: 38

Abstract

Inspired by the sophisticated artificial leather garment industry and toward enhancing wearability of energy storage devices, we demonstrate a polyurethane artificial leather supercapacitor with large sheet electrodes embedded in the leather layer simultaneously working as a polyelectrolyte. This design totally reserves textiles underneath and thus addresses the well-known challenge of wearing comfortability. It provides a revolutionary configuration of wearable supercapacitors: the artificial leather on garment is also a supercapacitor. Unlike the polyvinyl alcohol-based acidic electrolytes, which are widely used, sodium chloride is used to modify the intrinsically fluorescent polyurethane leather for ionic transportation, which has no harm to human. The fluorescent leather supercapacitor is easily transferrable from any arbitrary substrates to form various patterns, enabling multifunctionalities of practical wearability, fashion, and energy storage.


Highlights:


1 Practically wearable, easily transferrable, and fluorescent artificial leather supercapacitor was fabricated by combining energy storage technology with leather garment industry, solving the intrinsic problem of wearing comfortability in conventional yarn and textile supercapacitors.
2 Polyurethane as an important artificial leather is modified to be ion conductive by the incorporation of ionic groups and non-hazardous sodium chloride. The modified polyurethane artificial leather serves as a polyelectrolyte simultaneously.
3 The intrinsically fluorescent artificial leather supercapacitor is easily transferrable from any arbitrary substrates to form various patterns, enabling multifunctionalities of practical wearability, fashion, and energy storage.


 

Keywords

Artificial leather Neutral electrolyte Wearable supercapacitor Fluorescence
Huang, Yan, Zijie Tang, Zhuoxin Liu, Jun Wei, Hong Hu, and Chunyi Zhi. 2018. “Toward Enhancing Wearability and Fashion of Wearable Supercapacitor With Modified Polyurethane Artificial Leather Electrolyte”. Nano-Micro Letters 10 (3):38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-018-0191-7.
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