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A stretchable fabric as strain sensor integrating electromagnetic shielding and electrochemical energy storage

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Multifunctional intelligent fabric plays an integral role in health management, human–machine interaction, wireless energy storage and conversion, and many other artificial intelligence fields. Herein, we demonstrate a newly developed MXene/polyaniline (PANI) multifunctional fabric integrated with strain sensing, electrochemical energy storage, and electromagnetic shielding properties. The multifunctional fabric-based strain sensor possesses a real-time signal response at a sizeable tensile strain of 100% with a minute strain of 0.5%, maintaining a stable and consistent signal response even after 3000 stretch–release cycles. In addition, the multifunctional fabric exhibits excellent electromagnetic shielding capabilities, achieving a total shielding effectiveness value of up to 43 dB, and in the meantime shows attractive electrochemical energy storage performance as an electrode in a supercapacitor, offering a maximum specific capacity and energy density of 522.5 mF·cm−2 and 18.16 µWh·cm−2, respectively. Such a multifunctional intelligent fabric offers versatile opportunities to develop smart clothes for various artificial intelligent applications.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Energy-Saving and Low-Carbon Materials Production and Application Demonstration Platform Program (No. TC220H06N) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U20A20131 and 22209193).

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    Xu Li, Xiaohui Sun, Jiuyue Zhang, Song Xue & Linjie Zhi

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, China

    Xu Li, Xiaohui Sun, Jiuyue Zhang, Song Xue & Linjie Zhi

  3. College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, China

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Li, X., Sun, X., Zhang, J. et al. A stretchable fabric as strain sensor integrating electromagnetic shielding and electrochemical energy storage. Nano Res. 16, 12753–12761 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-6150-8

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