Facile Fabrication of Polyaniline/Pristine Graphene-Bacterial Cellulose Composites as High-Performance Electrodes for Constructing Flexible All-Solid-State Supercapacitors

Huijun Tan; Ding Xiao; Rahul Navik; Yaping Zhao

doi:10.1021/acsomega.1c00442

Facile Fabrication of Polyaniline/Pristine Graphene-Bacterial Cellulose Composites as High-Performance Electrodes for Constructing Flexible All-Solid-State Supercapacitors

ACS Omega. 2021 Apr 23;6(17):11427-11435. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00442. eCollection 2021 May 4.

Authors

Huijun Tan¹, Ding Xiao¹, Rahul Navik¹, Yaping Zhao¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.

Abstract

A novel structured composite of polyaniline/pristine graphene (PG)-bacterial cellulose (BC) as electrodes fabricated in a facile approach and the foldable all-solid-state supercapacitors with high performance were reported in this work. The shear mixed PG-BC substrate was fixed with in situ polymerized polyaniline as a solder, improving its charge carrier transfer rate and cycling stability, while hydrophilic BC greatly improved the ion diffusion rate of the electrolyte. The as-prepared composites possessed a high areal capacitance of 3.65 F/cm² at 5 mA/cm², and the electrode was able to be bent into different shapes without fracture. The assembled all-solid-state supercapacitor was flexible and exhibited excellent areal capacitance of 1389 mF/cm², energy density of 9.80 mWh/cm³, and 89.8% retention of its initial capacitance after 5000 cycles at a current density of 2 mA/cm². The composite is expected to have applications in making flexible supercapacitors applied in wearable devices.