Multifunctional microelectronic components featuring large stretchability, high sensitivity, high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and broad sensing range have attracted a huge surge of interest with the fast developing epidermal electronic systems. Here, the epidermal sensors based on all-carbon collaborative percolation network are demonstrated, which consist 3D graphene foam and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) obtained by two-step chemical vapor deposition processes. The nanoscaled CNT networks largely enhance the stretchability and SNR of the 3D microarchitectural graphene foams, endowing the strain sensor with a gauge factor as high as 35, a wide reliable sensing range up to 85%, and excellent cyclic stability (>5000 cycles). The flexible and reversible strain sensor can be easily mounted on human skin as a wearable electronic device for real-time and high accuracy detecting of electrophysiological stimuli and even for acoustic vibration recognition. The rationally designed all-carbon nanoarchitectures are scalable, low cost, and promising in practical applications requiring extraordinary stretchability and ultrahigh SNRs.
Uniform NiS2 hollow nanoprisms have been controllably synthesized by a facial sacrificial template method including two-step refluxed reactions. The morphology of the hollow NiS2 prisms can be easily tailored by the low cost nickel complex template. With unique hollow structure, efficient electron, and ion transport pathway as well as single crystal structure, the NiS2 hollow prisms electrode exhibits excellent pseudocapacitive performance in LiOH electrolyte. It can deliver a specific capacitance of 1725 F g(-1) at a current density of 5 A g(-1) and 1193 F g(-1) even at a current density of 40 A g(-1). Furthermore, the materials also present an amazing cycling stability, that is, the specific capacitance can increase from 1367 F g(-1) to 1680 F g(-1) after 10,000 cycles of charge-discharge at the current density of 20 A g(-1).
Fast Li-metal depletion and severe anode pulverization are the most critical obstacles for the energy-dense Li-metal full batteries using thin Li-metal anodes (<50 µm). Here, a wavy-nanostructured solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) with fast ion transfer kinetics is reported, which can promote highefficiency Li-metal plating/stripping (>98% at 4 mAh cm −2) in conventional carbonate electrolyte. Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) further reveals the fundamental relationship between wavy-nanostructured SEI, function, and the electrochemical performance. The wavy SEI with greatly decreased surface diffusion resistance can realize grain coarsening of Li-metal deposition and exhaustive dissolution of active Li-metal during the stripping process, which can effectively alleviate "dead Li" accumulation and anode pulverization problems in practical full cells. Under highly challenging conditions (45 µm Li-metal anodes, 4.3 mAh cm −2 high capacity LiNi 0.8 Mn 0.1 Co 0.1 O 2 cathodes), full cells exhibit significantly improved cycling lifespan (170 cycles; 20 cycles for control cells) via the application of wavy SEI.
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