Construction of flexible MXene/aramid nanofibers self-supporting electrodes and application in supercapacitors

Abstract

With the development of miniaturized wearable electronics，flexible energy storage devices with soft，flexible，small size，and high energy density have attracted widespread attention. Aramid nanofibers (ANF) were utilized as fiber reinforcement and pillared structure materials to prepare MXene/ANF flexible self-supporting electrode through vacuum filtration, which were subsequently assembled into all-solid-state symmetric supercapacitors.With the increase of ANF content to 15%，the mechanical properties of MXene/ANF self-supporting electrode increase to 151.5 MPa，while the conductivity decrease to 1371.1 S/cm. The MXene/ANF Self-supporting electrode shows a high specific capacitance of 432.7 F/g at the current density of 1 A/g. The assembled symmetric all-solid-state supercapacitors exhibit excellent mechanical flexibility and remarkable cycling stability,with an energy density of 25.7 Wh/kg at the power density of 523.1 W/kg and about 88.9% capacitance retention over 10000 cycles.

Keywords

• aramid nanofiber
• mxene
• fiber reinforcement
• flexible self-supporting electrode
• all-solid-state supercapacitor