Transparent and Multi-Foldable Nanocellulose Paper Microsupercapacitors

Sang Woo Kim, Kwon Hyung Lee, Yong Hyeok Lee, Won Jae Youe, Jae Gyoung Gwon, Sang Young Lee

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Abstract

Despite the ever-increasing demand for transparent power sources in wireless optoelectronics, most of them have still relied on synthetic chemicals, thus limiting their versatile applications. Here, a class of transparent nanocellulose paper microsupercapacitors (TNP-MSCs) as a beyond-synthetic-material strategy is demonstrated. Onto semi-interpenetrating polymer network-structured, thiol-modified transparent nanocellulose paper, a thin layer of silver nanowire and a conducting polymer (chosen as a pseudocapacitive electrode material) are consecutively introduced through microscale-patterned masks (which are fabricated by electrohydrodynamic jet printing) to produce a transparent conductive electrode (TNP-TCE) with planar interdigitated structure. This TNP-TCE, in combination with solid-state gel electrolytes, enables on-demand (in-series/in-parallel) cell configurations in a single body of TNP-MSC. Driven by this structural uniqueness and scalable microfabrication, the TNP-MSC exhibits improvements in optical transparency (T = 85%), areal capacitance (0.24 mF cm−2), controllable voltage (7.2 V per cell), and mechanical flexibility (origami airplane), which exceed those of previously reported transparent MSCs based on synthetic chemicals.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2203720
JournalAdvanced Science
Volume9
Issue number34
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022 Dec 8

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2021R1A2B5B03001615, 2021M3D1A2043791, and 2021M3H4A1A02099355). This work was also supported by the R&D Program for Forest Science Technology (Project No. FTIS 2021354D10-2123-AC03) provided by the Korea Forest Service (Korea Forestry Promotion Institute) and the Yonsei University Research Fund of 2020-22-0536.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2021R1A2B5B03001615, 2021M3D1A2043791, and 2021M3H4A1A02099355). This work was also supported by the R&D Program for Forest Science Technology (Project No. FTIS 2021354D10‐2123‐AC03) provided by the Korea Forest Service (Korea Forestry Promotion Institute) and the Yonsei University Research Fund of 2020‐22‐0536.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Chemical Engineering(all)
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
  • Engineering(all)
  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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