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Flexible quasi-solid-state sodium-ion full battery with ultralong cycle life, high energy density and high-rate capability

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Flexible power sources featuring high-performance, prominent flexibility and raised safety have received mounting attention in the area of wearable electronic devices. However, many great challenges remain to be overcome, notably the design and fabrication of flexible electrodes with excellent electrochemical performance and matching them with safe and reliable electrolytes. Herein, a facile approach for preparing flexible electrodes, which employs carbon cloth derived from commercial cotton cloth as the substrate of cathode and a flexible anode, is proposed and investigated. The promising cathode (NVPOF@FCC) with high conductivity and outstanding flexibility is prepared by efficiently coating Na3V2(PO4)2O2F (NVPOF) on flexible carbon cloth (FCC), which exhibits remarkable electrochemical performance and the significantly improved reaction kinetics. More importantly, a novel flexible quasi-solid-state sodium-ion full battery (QSFB) is feasibly assembled by sandwiching a P(VDF-HFP)-NaClO4 gel-polymer electrolyte film between the advanced NVPOF@FCC cathode and FCC anode. And the QSFBs are further evaluated in flexible pouch cells, which not only demonstrates excellent energy-storage performance in aspect of great cycling stability and high-rate capability, but also impressive flexibility and safety. This work offers a feasible and effective strategy for the design of flexible electrodes, paving the way for the progression of practical and sustainable flexible batteries.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91963118), Science Technology Program of Jilin Province (No. 20200201066JC), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2412020QD013), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M661187), and the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (BX20190064).

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    Chen-De Zhao, Xiao-Tong Wang, Xin-Xin Zhao, Hai-Yue Yu & Xing-Long Wu

  2. MOE Key Laboratory for UV Light-Emitting Materials and Technology, Northeast Normal University, Jilin, 130024, China

    Jin-Zhi Guo, Zhen-Yi Gu, Wen-Hao Li & Xing-Long Wu

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Zhao, CD., Guo, JZ., Gu, ZY. et al. Flexible quasi-solid-state sodium-ion full battery with ultralong cycle life, high energy density and high-rate capability. Nano Res. 15, 925–932 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3577-7

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