Although great attention has been paid to wearable electronic devices in recent
years, flexible lightweight batteries or supercapacitors with high performance are
still not readily available due to the limitations of the flexible electrode
inventory. In this work, highly flexible, bendable and conductive rGO-PEDOT/PSS
films were prepared using a simple bar-coating method. The assembled device using
rGO-PEDOT/PSS electrode could be bent and rolled up without any decrease in
electrochemical performance. A relatively high areal capacitance of
448 mF cm−2 was achieved at a
scan rate of 10 mV s−1 using the
composite electrode with a high mass loading
(8.49 mg cm−2), indicating
the potential to be used in practical applications. To demonstrate this
applicability, a roll-up supercapacitor device was constructed, which illustrated
the operation of a green LED light for 20 seconds when fully
charged.
Recent developments in both materials science and printing technologies have led to a rapid expansion in the field of printed conducting polymers. This review provides an overview of the most common printing methods currently in use and the material requirements of each. Examples of printed devices fabricated from a range of conducting polymers are given with an emphasis on the development of sensors.
Vacancy engineering has been proved repeatedly as an adoptable strategy to boost electrocatalysis, while its poor selectivity restricts the usage in nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) as overwhelming competition from hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Revealed by density functional theory calculations, the selenium vacancy in ReSe2 crystal can enhance its electroactivity for both NRR and HER by shifting the d‐band from −4.42 to −4.19 eV. To restrict the HER, we report a novel method by burying selenium vacancy‐rich ReSe2@carbonized bacterial cellulose (Vr‐ReSe2@CBC) nanofibers between two CBC layers, leading to boosted Faradaic efficiency of 42.5 % and ammonia yield of 28.3 μg h−1 cm−2 at a potential of −0.25 V on an abrupt interface. As demonstrated by the nitrogen bubble adhesive force, superhydrophilic measurements, and COMSOL Multiphysics simulations, the hydrophobic and porous CBC layers can keep the internal Vr‐ReSe2@CBC nanofibers away from water coverage, leaving more unoccupied active sites for the N2 reduction (especially for the potential determining step of proton‐electron coupling and transferring processes as *NN → *NNH).
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