Flexible Supercapacitor Fabricated on a Polyester-Cotton Textile

Abstract

This paper reports the design, fabrication and characterization of a flexible supercapacitor on top of a polyester-cotton textile. The textile-based, flexible supercapacitors were implemented with inexpensive screen-printed carbon black electrodes, an integrated polymer separator and a nonhazardous organic electrolyte. The encapsulated devices demonstrated area capacitance of 0.54 mF·cm−2.

Keywords

• supercapacitor
• e-textile
• polymer membrane separator
• flexible encapsulation