Designing flexible, smart and self-sustainable supercapacitors for portable/wearable electronics: from conductive polymers

Z Zhao, K Xia, Y Hou, Q Zhang, Z Ye, J Lu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of portable/wearable electronics proposes new demands for energy
storage devices, which are flexibility, smart functions and long-time outdoor operation …

Electrochemical supercapacitors: from mechanism understanding to multifunctional applications

J Chen, PS Lee - Advanced Energy Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical supercapacitors (SC) with high power and long cycle life have been
extensively studied and applied in certain areas. However, a majority of the efforts have …

Piezoionic mechanoreceptors: Force-induced current generation in hydrogels

Y Dobashi, D Yao, Y Petel, TN Nguyen, MS Sarwar… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human somatosensory network relies on ionic currents to sense, transmit, and process
tactile information. We investigate hydrogels that similarly transduce pressure into ionic …

Metal organic framework‐MXene nanoarchitecture for fast responsive and ultra‐stable electro‐ionic artificial muscles

M Garai, M Mahato, S Nam, E Kim… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electro‐ionic soft actuators, capable of continuous deformations replacing non‐compliant
rigid mechanical components, attract increasing interest in the field of next‐generation …

MXene artificial muscles based on ionically cross-linked Ti3C2Tx electrode for kinetic soft robotics

S Umrao, R Tabassian, J Kim, VH Nguyen, Q Zhou… - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Existing ionic artificial muscles still require a technology breakthrough for much faster
response speed, higher bending strain, and longer durability. Here, we report an MXene …

Carbon electrodes for capacitive technologies

P Ratajczak, ME Suss, F Kaasik, F Béguin - Energy Storage Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
An overview of capacitive technologies based on carbon materials (energy storage in
electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), capacitive deionization (CDI), energy harvesting …

Polysulfonated covalent organic framework as active electrode host for mobile cation guests in electrochemical soft actuator

M Mahato, M Garai, VH Nguyen, S Oh, S Nam… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tailoring transfer dynamics of mobile cations across solid-state electrolyte-electrode
interfaces is crucial for high-performance electrochemical soft actuators. In general …

Wearable technologies enable high-performance textile supercapacitors with flexible, breathable and wearable characteristics for future energy storage

J Wen, B Xu, Y Gao, M Li, H Fu - Energy Storage Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible and wearable energy storage devices are expected to provide power support for the
burgeoning smart and portable electronics. In particular, textile substrate and wearable …

Stimuli‐responsive MXene‐based actuators

VH Nguyen, R Tabassian, S Oh, S Nam… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
MXenes, a member of 2D inorganic compounds that contain few‐atom‐thick layers of
transition metal carbides, nitrides, and polar surface functional groups, are extraordinary …

High‐performance ionic‐polymer–metal composite: toward large‐deformation fast‐response artificial muscles

S Ma, Y Zhang, Y Liang, L Ren… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As promising candidates in the field of artificial muscles, ionic‐polymer–metal composites
(IPMCs) still cannot simultaneously provide large deformations and fast responses, which …