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Wearable yarn supercapacitors coated with twisted PPy@GO nanosheets and PPy@PAN-GO nanofibres

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There is an urgent need to develop flexible yarn-type supercapacitors with excellent electrochemical and mechanical properties for flexible energy storage devices in portable and wearable electronics. In this study, graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets and polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-GO nanofibres were coated on the surface of Ni-plated cotton yarn (NCY) via conjugate electrospinning technology, followed by chemical deposition of a polypyrrole (PPy) layer through in situ polymerisation of pyrrole, obtaining a flexible wearable PPy@GO/PAN-GO@Ni-coated cotton core-spun yarn (PGPG/NCY) electrode. The synergetic effect of NCY, GO/PAN-GO nanofibres, and PPy nanoparticles imparted a hierarchically porous structure, good conductivity, and high tensile strength (71.43 MPa) to this electrode. A flexible symmetric all-solid-state two-ply yarn supercapacitor based on PGPG/NCY electrodes was assembled. This yarn supercapacitor exhibited a high areal specific capacitance (28.34 mF cm−2) and high energy density (3.98 μWh cm−2), which are superior to those of other yarn supercapacitors. The capacitance retention of this yarn supercapacitor remained at 90.2% after 1000 cyclic voltammetry cycles and 100% at different bending angles; the yarn supercapacitor exhibited high electrochemical performance and cycling stability. Thus, the proposed high-performance yarn supercapacitor based on PGPG/NCY electrodes is promising and widely applicable in wearable devices.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U2004178 and No. 51803244), the Key Scientific Research Project in Colleges and Universities of Henan Province of China (No. 21zx001), and the Fundamental Research Funds of Zhongyuan University of Technology of Henan Province of China (No. K2020QN001).

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    Xu Zhao, Wanwan Li, Fang Li, Yijun Hou, Tong Lu, Yu Pan, Jinlei Li, Yangyang Xu & Jianxin He

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Zhao, X., Li, W., Li, F. et al. Wearable yarn supercapacitors coated with twisted PPy@GO nanosheets and PPy@PAN-GO nanofibres. J Mater Sci 56, 18147–18161 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-06500-1

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