Improvement of system capacitance via weavable superelastic biscrolled yarn supercapacitors

Changsoon Choi; Kang Min Kim; Keon Jung Kim; Xavier Lepró; Geoffrey M. Spinks; Ray H. Baughman; Seon Jeong Kim

doi:10.1038/ncomms13811

Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Improvement of system capacitance via weavable superelastic biscrolled yarn supercapacitors

Changsoon Choi,
Kang Min Kim,
Keon Jung Kim,
Xavier Lepró,
Geoffrey M. Spinks,
Ray H. Baughman,
Seon Jeong Kim

Affiliations

Changsoon Choi: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Self-Powered Actuation, Hanyang University
Kang Min Kim: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Self-Powered Actuation, Hanyang University
Keon Jung Kim: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Self-Powered Actuation, Hanyang University
Xavier Lepró: The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas
Geoffrey M. Spinks: Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, University of Wollongong
Ray H. Baughman: The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas
Seon Jeong Kim: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Self-Powered Actuation, Hanyang University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13811
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

Read online

Carbon nanotube yarns with high loadings of pseudocapacitive material are desirable, e.g., for emerging wearable technologies. Here authors make biscrolled yarns with high loadings of MnO2nanoparticles confined in carbon nanotube galleries, demonstrating very high linear and areal capacitances.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

About the journal