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Review

The State of the Art of Energy Harvesting and Storage in Silk Fibroin-Based Wearable and Implantable Devices

by
Ravi Moreno Araújo Pinheiro Lima
,
Mário César Albuquerque de Oliveira
and
Helinando Pequeno de Oliveira
*
Institute of Materials Science, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Juazeiro 48920–310, Bahia, Brazil
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Electrochem 2020, 1(4), 344-357; https://doi.org/10.3390/electrochem1040022
Submission received: 2 September 2020 / Revised: 24 September 2020 / Accepted: 28 September 2020 / Published: 2 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members of Electrochem 2020)
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Abstract

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The energy autonomy of self-powered wearable electronics depends on the adequate development of new technologies for energy harvesting and energy storage devices based on textile fibers to facilitate the integration with truly flexible and wearable devices. Silk fiber-based systems are attractive for the design of biomedical devices, lithium-ion batteries and flexible supercapacitors, due to their nitrogen-rich structure (for preparation of hierarchical carbon-based structures), and available surface for chemical modification reinforcing electroactive properties for use in batteries and supercapacitors. Herein, this paper reviews recent advances on silk fiber-based systems for harvesting and the storage of energy and the corresponding strategies to reinforce the physical and chemical properties of the resulting composites applied as electrodes and battery separators.

1. Introduction

Conventional electronics based on inorganic semiconductors have been proved strong miniaturization in the last decades, reaching the limit of saturation in the integration level and relying on the rigidity of materials that present poor biocompatibility/biodegradability, a required property for actuators at soft interfaces such as biological surfaces [1,2].
The “green” electronics area is preconized as an emerging concept in which natural-based materials enrich properties, such as environmentally safe and biomedical applications for new devices [3]. Based on this concept, the literature has witnessed a recent revolution form development of smart textiles (e-textiles) that concerns to the integration of desirable electroconductive properties of electronic devices [4] with softness, biocompatibility, biodegradability and effective cost of production [5] of new materials in an environmentally responsible process for the production of electronic sensors and actuators.
Health monitoring and fitting tracking are the most recent applications for e-textiles [6] with promising properties for use in wound dressing systems, Joule heaters, antibacterial agents and energy storage devices [7]. The continuous development in the area of all-flexible e-textiles requires the integration of devices such as antennas, information processors, light sources, sensors and actuators, being required a high degree of autonomy. The availability of energy sources is a driven force for the production of wearable energy storage and energy harvesting devices that must be integrated with these devices under the condition of invariance in the response under different mechanical efforts (bending and stretching) and washing procedures [8,9].
The concepts of green electronics suggest that e-textile devices could be made by traditional and ancient textiles such as cotton and silk fibers. In particular, Bombyx mori silk fiber (known as the “queen of textiles”) is a material produced by silkworms which are composed of a fibrous core made of silk fibroin proteins, a heterodimer of fibroin heavy chain and light chain proteins [5] coated with sericin [10], which is an outer coating layer [5]; the degumming process that removes sericin from the structure is usually conducted in sodium carbonate solution [11]. With the removal of the outer layer of sericin, the overall processing of silk fibroin has been explored for the production of membranes, hydrogels, aerogels, powder, tubes, films and alternative configurations [5,12] that explore the abundance of hydrogen bonds on its backbone for the following chemical modification and incorporation of additives [10].
Despite this variety of available microstructures, the poor electrical properties of silk fibroin (SF) represents an important drawback to be circumvented in the development of e-textiles. The adequate modification of silk fibroin with additives such as conducting polymers [13,14,15,16], metal oxide and metal nanoparticles results in a reasonable level of conductivity for fibers while preserves the mechanical properties, that have been reinforced (impact/compression properties) by preparation of composites with epoxy [17,18,19] and by incorporation of graphene derivatives [20,21,22,23] for the following step of reduction of graphene oxide(GO), reinforcing properties such as anti-ultraviolet and water repellent activity. With these modifications in the intrinsic properties of the silk fibers, electroactive smart textile-based on silk fibroin can be considered as good templates for applications involving the shielding of electromagnetic radiation, dissipation of microwave energy, heat generation, etc. [16].
Different methods have been explored to incorporate high conductivity levels for silk-fibroin based systems, which are based on the interaction of fiber with fillers, such as carbon derivatives (graphene and carbon nanostructures), conducting polymers (polypyrrole, polyaniline, PEDOT: PSS) and gold/silver nanoparticles. These methods for surface modification are based on solution casting [24], dry-pun, LbL, chemical polymerization, reduction of metal ions to metal nanoparticles [25], etc. On the other hand, the carbonization makes use of the rich structure of silk fibroins to produced N-doped porous carbon, with advantages for pseudocapacitive based-materials applied as electrodes of supercapacitors and anode of batteries.
Silk-fibroin based composites with superior electroconductive and mechanical properties have been considered as potential templates for different applications, as summarized in Scheme of Figure 1.
As shown, the use of electroactive silk fiber-based materials has been considered for energy harvesting/storage and favors applications in wearable/implantable devices.

2. Energy Harvesting and Storage in SF-Based Systems

2.1. Wearable Devices

2.1.1. Energy Storage Solutions

The use of silk fabric as a template for wearable devices has been intensively reported in the literature as an important source for the production of highly efficient assemblies of electrodes. A typical advantage for pristine samples (silk cocoons) refers to the abundance of nitrogen content and a rich porous structure that can be directly converted into hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets. The nitrogen ensures fast and reversible surface redox reactions [26] (improved pseudocapacitance) while the hierarchical porous structure offers adequate pore size distribution via rich distribution of pathways for transportation and penetration of electrolyte ions.
Different strategies have been conducted to reach these desirable conditions: the direct carbonization of silk cocoons and silk fibers followed by activation with different chemicals results in the production of a material with superior pseudocapacitive response [27,28,29,30,31,32,33]. As an alternative to the activation by KOH, the simultaneous carbonization and activation with ZnCl2 and FeCl3 result in carbon nanosheets [34], while strategies of combined carbonization with different additives produce CNT/silk structures [35] for use as electrodes of supercapacitors.
The incorporation of hierarchical structures in wearable devices has been reinforced by the carbonization of natural silk fabric, followed by the deposition of MXene (Ti3C2Tx), which results in an adhesive coating to be incorporated in textiles, offering the characteristics of an electrically conductive flexible textile electrode [36] with potential for use as battery anode or supercapacitor electrodes [37].
Alternative strategies refer to the mutual carbonization of silk fibers and additives, such as graphene [38] for the following step of the coating of carbonized species with pseudocapacitive materials. The deposition of polypyrrole on carbonized silk fabric circumvents the typical drawback of pure conducting polymers-based supports relative to the self-aggregation; the polymerization on hierarchically interconnected structures favors the uniform growth of polymeric structures [39].
Beyond the typical procedure involving the carbonization of silk cocoons and silk fibers, the chemical modification of silk fabrics represents another important strategy to incorporate electrochemical properties without affecting the mechanical properties of the support. The most common procedure regards to the graphene oxide deposition on fibers to incorporate electrochemical properties of the modified filler. This process of impregnation can be established by spray coating of graphene oxide on fibers [40,41,42], filtration method [43], by the development of graphene oxide-based hydrogel [44] and flash freezing/lyophilization for the production of carbon aerogels [42] that are applied in the following step of reduction into reduced graphene oxide (rGO). This process can be controlled by the use of pattern photoresist (that act as a stencil) that protects regions against the reduction of material and can be applied in the production of patterns (electrodes of rGO) in microsupercapacitor prototypes [43].
The production of ternary composites on SF templates from successive incorporation of additives represents another successful strategy that associates the outstanding conductivity and large pseudocapacitance with improvement in the cycling performance of the Electrical Double Layer Capacitance (EDLC) from additives to resulting devices. For this, hierarchical deposition of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (by drop coating) has been followed by the growth of a pseudocapacitive wrapping layer of poly(3,4-ethylene dioxy-thiophene)-poly(styrene sulfonat: PEDOT: PSS [45], polypyrrole [45] and polyaniline [46] or reduced graphene oxide/polyaniline (rGO/PANI) composites [47] on silk fibers that preserve the good mechanical properties of the fibers incorporating the high conductivity level of the conducting polymers.
However, the conventional process for the production of silk fiber-based electrodes refers to the traditional assembly of pseudocapacitive/EDLC layers on metallic current collectors. For this, the deposition of gold and silver nanoparticles [48,49,50] represents an important strategy to improve the electrical properties of modified fibers that act as current collectors for electrodes of supercapacitors. Despite the higher cost for metallic treatment (growth/deposition) for the following step of chemical modification (pseudocapacitance incorporation), this process affects the overall resistance of electrodes and the corresponding electrochemical response of devices. Table 1 summarizes the most promising results for corresponding experimental systems, ordered from decreasing values of energy density, the most critical parameter in supercapacitors.
As previously described, a very interesting constitutive aspect of silk derivatives is the abundant nitrogen content. The good pseudocapacitive contribution of nitrogen-doped structures combined with the hierarchical and pore-rich structure of carbon derived materials confirms the carbonization of silk derivatives as one of the most promising strategies to reach outstanding performance in supercapacitors. As observed in the first line of Table 1, an energy density in the order of 138.4 Wh/kg is observed for nitrogen-rich honey-comb-like hierarchical structure produced by the calcination at 200 °C of silkworm excrements [51]. A corresponding process of activation and graphitization of biomass-derived natural silk results in a porous material with outstanding surface area (2494 m2/g) with good performance in energy storage (102 Wh/kg) and high capacitance retention (91% after 10,000 cycles) [37].
Alternatively to the carbonization of silk-derived compounds, the modification of regenerated silk fibroins results in carbon aerogels with graphene oxide (63 Wh/kg) [42] while hydrothermal sulfurization results in composites with NiCO2S4 with good performance in terms of energy density (52.34 Wh/kg) [52]. Despite these promising results for the thermal treatment of silk fibers, the chemical modification of the pristine fibers remains a promising strategy to be applied in the production of coaxial structures with good electrochemical performance. For this, it is reported [49] a standard procedure in which the current collector is produced by metal deposition of gold/silver layer on silk fiber for the following step in which the polymeric layer of PEDOT is deposited. The resulting device presents an outstanding specific capacitance of 500 F/g. The incorporation of silk fibroin in wearable electronics has been considered a promising step toward reaching the desirable condition for sustainable implantable and wearable devices.

2.1.2. Energy Harvesting Solutions

The internet of things has been progressively incorporated in our daily life, with the integration of electronic equipment [53], sensors and actuators. Moreover, the incorporation of self-powered energy storage devices (lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors) in wearable electronics is a necessary step toward the full operation of all of the devices [54]. In particular, the small size of these energy storage devices requires strategies to reach continuous charge of devices avoiding external connections. This process reinforces the requirement for the development of wearable generators that harvest energy from different sources.
Many processes have been explored to harvest energy, such as piezoelectricity [55], thermoelectricity [56], photoelectricity, electromagnetic effect and triboelectricity [57]. Based on this diversity of mechanisms, it has been progressively reported in the literature the use of different experimental systems to capture a small amount of energy from movement, heat or vibration and to convert it into electric energy directed to the electronic device. The Seebeck effect is an important mechanism that converts the gradient of temperature in a hot junction into electric energy [56]. For this, silk fibers have been coated with different materials (such as Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3) in opposite sides assembled as thermoelectric columns [56].
The development of alternative thermocouples devices based on silk fibroin [8] has been observed from the deposition of Ag nanowires on silk fibers for the following step of polymerization of PEDOT: PSS in textile thermoelectric devices that convert the gradient of temperature between the body and the ambient into electricity.
More simplified assemblies based on silk cocoons explored the ability of these materials to promote the current flow of ionic charge carriers facilitated by the incorporation of adsorbed species into silk cocoon membranes disposed of between distinct electrodes [58,59], such as copper (anode) and aluminum (cathode). The incorporation of these additives can be established by direct adsorption of nanoparticles by silk fibers or by the direct administration of silver nanoparticles into the diet of the silk larvae [59].
On the other hand, an interesting process that incorporates silk fibroin into the production of nano- and micro-generators makes use of the triboelectric phenomena. The combination of electrification effect and electrostatic processes allows that energy in mechanical vibrations rotation and body motion can be harvested.
Figure 2 (reproduced from [60]) introduces a typical device-triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) that converts SF into silk fibroin—based composite aerogel in a standard prototype composed by spacers and electrodes coated by a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) layer filter paper and the silk aerogel/carbon nanofiber-silk aerogel (CNF/silk aerogel) on the opposite side acting as a triboelectric pair for the generation of energy.
Another important strategy for the effective development of silk fibroin-based devices is the alignment of the polymer chains that favor the dipole orientation. The production of electrospun silk fibroins stabilized with methanol favors applications, such as airflow; energy harvesting systems [57] that are based on the disposition of silk fibers between dimethylpolysiloxane (PDMS) layers, allowing that vibration of silk fibers and the resulting friction against PDMS films can be explored in the generation of charges on the triboelectric pairs. In common, an important property for silk fibroin structures refers to the ultra-high surface-to-volume ratio of the natural fibrillar structures that provide adequate condition to harvest energy. For comparison of different processes, Table 2 summarizes the most relevant parameters from silk-fibroin-based harvesting devices (in terms of maximum voltage, power density and the internal resistance of the power source).
The order in devices in Table 2 is established by values of power density to evaluate the performance in the harvesting of energy from different processes. In common, it is observed that superior performance is reached for triboelectric micro- (TEMG), nano- (TENG) and TEG generators. The best performance of reported devices has been observed for the SF-based TEMG system deposited on dimethylpolysiloxane/Indium tin oxide (PDMS/ITO) films applied in the airflow conversion into energy reaching power density of 864 W/m2 and internal resistance of 8 MΩ [57]. The development of SF-based TENG devices is observed from devices that intercalate silk fibroin with silver nanowires that generate a power density of 20 W/m2 from finger contact with the sensor [61].
As an alternative to these systems, it is reported the development of cost-effective devices from the production of interdigitated graphite electrodes coated with thin films of silk fibroin that effectively harvest the energy from movements [62]. Alternatives based on PET/ITO have been optimized by oxygen plasma treatment with RF plasma to create a good interaction level with silk fibroin triboelectric pairs [63].

2.2. Implantable Devices

Energy Storage Solutions

Implantable bioelectronic devices are important components for the development of medicine [61]. In common, these systems rely on superior electrical performance to be applied in the storage of energy.
On the other hand, the high conductivity and intrinsic cytocompatibility of chemically modified silk fibroins open possibilities for the development of nerve guide conduits for applications in nerve injuries [68] produced from the double coating of graphene oxide/polypyrrole on silk fibroin, associating the superior mechanical properties of graphene oxide and the outstanding electroactive response of polypyrrole. Blending with graphene oxide offers adequate combination for the production of scaffolds [4,12] while the incorporation of polypyrrole has been also directed applied to the production of biocompatible/biodegradable batteries (acting as a cathode) coupled with bioresorbable Mg alloy immersed in a saline electrolyte (PBS) [69]. Applications in wound dressing are also favored by the incorporation (under high-intensity ultrasound) of ZnO nanoparticles in the hydrogel-grafted silk fibroins [70] while ultraviolet protection is favored by the incorporation of TiO2/La(III) nanoparticles composites in silk fabrics [19].
The assembly of silk fibroins in hybrid membranes results in a negatively charged surface with nanochannels for ion transportation; these membranes are applied as prototypes for osmotic energy conversion systems [71].
In particular, biodegradable separators are critical components for active implantable medical devices (AIMDs) that presented important advances to be considered as temporary devices. In this case, it is expected the disintegration or resorption of devices by the body in a process that bioabsorbable batteries must preserve the electrical functionality of the AIMDs under degradation. The use of as-collected Bombyx mori silkworm cocoons has been reported in the literature as a green strategy to produce separators for batteries [33,72,73].
The optimization in the performance of silk fibroins was reached with changes in morphology, from the production of SF-membrane films, SF-sponges and SF-electrospun membranes immersed in commercial ionic liquids [74]. Other strategies are based on the control of the pore size of SF-based systems that have a direct influence on electrolyte uptake [75]. It is reached by the etching on nanofibrils from the direct action of oxygen and nitrogen plasma treatment at different exposure times.
In particular, the development of silk-fibroin-based on-board biodegradable power sources has been successfully applied in transient implantable medical bionics [76] that can be applied in the detection and actuation of vital signals into the human body [69]. The use is directed to the control of drug delivery systems and cardiovascular stimulus, in which electrical stimulus and biodegradability/biocompatibility are mutually required [69]. To reach these properties, it is necessary to eliminate the toxicity of some components of traditional batteries, controlling the lifetime of batteries and increasing the power density of the resulting devices.
For this, the association of silk fibroin and polypyrrole as a cathode and Mg bioresorbable alloy as anode immersed in phosphate-buffered saline electrolyte simulates the adequate incorporation of a biodegradable device that explores the body fluid as an electrolyte, allowing that device can be absorbed by the body [69]. An alternative that has been applied in the control of the overall consumption of the device has been reported in [76], in which biodegradable film of SF encapsulates the device prepared from a combination of silk fibroin and choline nitrate and a biodegradable thin film of magnesium. The coating layer of SF is responsible for the control in the lifetime of the overall device [76].
The performance of batteries based on silk fibroin as fillers/separators is summarized in Table 3.
In terms of performance (measured from discharge capacity), an important aspect to be considered for batteries refers to the porosity, degree of conductivity and flexibility of the electrodes. The poor electroactive properties of silk fabrics have been circumvented by two different strategies: the carbonization of the structure or the incorporation of additives. The best response for lithium-ion batteries based on silk fibers (applied as constitutive media for battery anodes) was reached from an initial step of carbonization followed by the growth of hierarchical structures [37], such as the in situ growth of molybdenum disulfide (vertically oriented on carbonized silk fibers) [77], or by the growth of ZnCo2O4 in 3D conductive networks [78].
The thermal treatment of SF with the incorporation of additives has been reported in [79], in which air cathode-based Zn-Air battery makes use of a nitrogen-doped nanocarbon structure prepared from the pyrolysis of porous Ketjenblack impregnated with silk fibers. The scheme of preparation and final device is shown in Figure 3 (reproduced from [79]).
The N-doped nanocarbon structures that result from pyrolysis are applied by drop-casting onto carbon cloth that acts as an air cathode for Zn-Air batteries, reaching a discharging capacity of 614.7 mAh/g. Based on these results, the best performance for SF-based batteries is reached for porous batteries based on carbonized silk fibroin making use of lithium-ion due to the superior properties of ions and porosity of the matrix. Despite the low performance for biobattery based on silk fibers, the most important property for this system refers to the negligible toxicity/good biocompatibility/degradability of the resulting devices, characterizing an important topic to be investigated in SF-based batteries.

3. Discussion and Perspectives

The incorporation of green electronics concepts and the development of more effective energy storage devices introduce ancient fibers as promising templates for chemical modification and the following implementation in wearable/implantable devices. Batteries are the most common energy supplier components, due to the intrinsic high performance in terms of energy density, assembled by the conventional disposition of two electrodes (anode and cathode) and separated by a membrane (separator) that acts as a physical barrier to avoid short circuit and to provide adequate ionic transportation: while the anode potential affects the cell voltage, the nature of the cathode determines the battery capacity [75]. The most common experimental systems are based on lithium-ion based batteries (LIBs) that introduce advantages on conventional acid and nickel-metal hybrid batteries (NiMH) in terms of Coulombic efficiency, energy density, memory effects and open-circuit voltage. Despite the relevance of electrodes and electrolyte, a critical component to be considered in the overall device refers to the separator. In the conventional structure, these polymeric membranes are soaked into an electrolyte being critical factors for the definition of cost, cycle life, reliability and safety of the resulting battery [33]. Silk fibroin-based membranes are promising candidates for use as environmentally friendly separators of batteries, with particular interest for biobatteries with controllable consumption by the body-minimizing additional surgeries for battery removal. The production of hybrid devices considering natural material as separators and electrodes represents an important step in the direction to reach an all-green device. For this, the important strategy reported in [76] (from the encapsulation of device with SF layer) can be explored in implantable bio-based applications while the integration of electrodes/separators of SF can be conveniently addressed to reach requirements for flexibility and electrochemical requisites for the development of green batteries.
On the other hand, the use of SF in supercapacitors for wearables has been focused on the balanced contribution of EDLC and pseudocapacitance terms, reinforcing the combination of highly porous structures and metal oxide/conducting polymers as promising supports for outstanding electrochemical response systems.
In general, the good specific capacitance (C) for pseudocapacitance-based materials is associated with a limited voltage window (V), with direct implication on energy density (E = CV2/2). As a consequence, the improvement in the energy density of supercapacitors has been considered from the increase in the voltage windows (from the production of asymmetric supercapacitors): V>1 V and by the combined action of pseudocapacitance and EDLC response [81].
The most-reported strategy to reach good performance in SF-based supercapacitors has been the production of nitrogen-doped highly porous structures prepared by carbonization of silk fibers for the following step of use as conductive ink for application in textiles (serving as electrodes). However, the coating of fibers with conducting polymer layers, metal oxide nanoparticles and metal nanowires has been considered a promising chemical procedure that preserves the structure of the material (reducing the costs of thermal treatment), opening the possibility of production of asymmetric devices with higher energy density (broad window voltage) and easy integration with textiles in wearable devices. Alternatives to produce highly porous structures (without the carbonization of silk) appears with the processing of regenerated silk firoin in electrospun fibers, in which is possible to control the incorporation degree of and additives and alignment of fibers. This process favors not only the production of more conductive electrodes, but also the effective charge generation in fibers surface applied as an active element in triboelectric generator systems.
Figure 4 summarizes the most common procedures (chemical modification, electrospinning technique and carbonization) that are applied in silk derivatives to reach desirable properties for use as a separator, active layer or electrodes for energy harvesting systems, supercapacitors and batteries.
Based on these strategies, important advances have been observed in devices such as Mg-Air-based biobatteries, separators for conventional Li-ion batteries, wearable supercapacitors and active layer for energy harvesting systems.

4. Conclusions

Green electronics are potentially favored by the incorporation of natural materials in the substitution of scarce and toxic components. The incorporation of silk fibroin in energy storage/harvesting devices follows different strategies: high energy-density-based applications (production of lithium-ion batteries) explore the nitrogen-rich hierarchical structure that results from carbonization while the biomedical application explores all of biocompatibility/biodegradability offered by silk fibroin derivatives applied as electrodes (acquiring electroconductive properties) or as separator/active membrane for harvesting energy. Despite current advances in the hierarchical structures produced from the carbonization of silk fibers, these results confirm a clear tendency for the use of pristine SF as support for chemical modification (reinforcement in mechanical/electrical properties), exploring a more complete range of possibilities in which new biomedical and implantable devices are favored by a flexible, biocompatible and cost-effective of silk fibroin. These aspects confirm this natural product as an important building block for green and self-powered electronic devices with superior performance in degradable, implantable and wearable systems. The barrier for an all-SF device can be considered an important step that integrates applications of wearable and implantable silk-based devices.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: H.P.d.O.; Investigation: M.C.A.d.O., R.M.A.P.L.; Funding acquisition: H.P.d.O.; Supervision: H.P.d.O.; Writing—original draft: H.P.d.O., M.C.A.d.O., R.M.A.P.L.; Writing—review and editing: H.P.d.O. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by Brazilian agencies CNPq and CAPES.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Applications of electroactive silk fibroin in different areas.
Figure 1. Applications of electroactive silk fibroin in different areas.
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Figure 2. A schematic view of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) device based on silk aerogel is applied as an active layer. Reprinted with permission from [60]. Copyright (2020) American Chemical Society.
Figure 2. A schematic view of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) device based on silk aerogel is applied as an active layer. Reprinted with permission from [60]. Copyright (2020) American Chemical Society.
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Figure 3. Schematic view of Zn Air battery-based silk fibroin. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [79]. Copyright (2019) American Chemical Society.
Figure 3. Schematic view of Zn Air battery-based silk fibroin. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [79]. Copyright (2019) American Chemical Society.
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Figure 4. Standard modifications (carbonization, production of electrospun fibers from regenerated material and chemical deposition) and application as electrodes for supercapacitors and separator for triboelectric generators and batteries/biobatteries for silk fibroin derivatives.
Figure 4. Standard modifications (carbonization, production of electrospun fibers from regenerated material and chemical deposition) and application as electrodes for supercapacitors and separator for triboelectric generators and batteries/biobatteries for silk fibroin derivatives.
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Table 1. Comparison of performance for different silk fiber-based supercapacitors in terms of energy and power density, specific capacitance and capacitance retention.
Table 1. Comparison of performance for different silk fiber-based supercapacitors in terms of energy and power density, specific capacitance and capacitance retention.
MaterialsEnergy Density/Specific CapacitanceCapacitance RetentionReference
Power Density
Porous carbon obtained from silkworm excrement at700 °C 138.4 Wh/kg378.5 F/g66.10%[51]
495.9 W/kg(0.5 A/g)(9000 cycles)
Nitrogen-Doped102 Wh/kg242 F/g91%[37]
Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Silk-(10,000 cycles)
Silk proteins and graphene oxide carbon aerogels63 Wh/kg 298 F/g92.1%[42]
20 kW/kg(5000 cycles)
NiCo2S4 nanotubes templated by natural silk52.34 Wh/kg158.89 F/g85.65%[52]
2206.37 W/kg(1 A/g)(3000 cycles at 10 A/g)
Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/gold coated silk fiber (PEDOT-GSFs10)44 Wh/kg500 F/g80%[49]
2458 W/kg(10,000 cycles)
Nitrogen-doped porous carbon activated at 700 °C33.6 Wh/kg--[27]
-
Co-doped reduced graphene (co-rGO)-silk fibroin composite film28.31 Wh/kg104 F/g89%[41]
78.24 kW/kg(0.5 A/g)(10,000 cycles)
Graphene/Silk Fibroin Based Carbon Nanocomposite22.8 Wh/kg230 F/g-[38]
200 W/kg(1 A/g)
Three dimensional (3D) heteroatom-doped active carbon17.2 Wh/kg48.6 F/g116%[30]
207 W/kg(0.7 mA/cm2)(10,000 cycles)
Carbonized silk at 850 °C14.33 Wh/kg178 F/g-[34]
251 W/kg(0.5 A/g)
Flexible all-solid hollow graphene fiber supercapacitor2.64 Wh/kg76.1 F/g90.50%[40]
-(1 A/g)(2000 cycles)
Polypyrrole/carbonized silk fabric6.88 mWh/cm3666.78 mF/cm247%[39]
0.04 W/cm3(2 mA/cm2)(500 cycles)
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Table 2. Comparison of maximum values of current and power and the power density of different silk-based harvesting systems.
Table 2. Comparison of maximum values of current and power and the power density of different silk-based harvesting systems.
SamplesVout_max/Pdensity (W/m2)Internal Resistance (MΩ)Ref.
Pout_max
Indium tin oxide (ITO) coated polyethylene terephthalate(PET)/PDMS/Silk fibroin triboelectric microgenerator TEMG35 V/8648[57]
162 µW
Silver nanowire (AgNW)/Silk fibroin TENG40 V/201[61]
-
Printed Silk Fibroin -TENG666 V/4.1210[62]
4.21 mW
Silk Fibroin/PET/ITO triboelectric generator (TEG)268 V/1.93640[63]
1.55 mW
Indium tin oxide (ITO) coated polyethylene terephthalate(PET)/SF260 V/1.61530[64]
0.65 mW
Carbon nanofibers/Silk 11.8 V/0.370.001–10 [60]
-
nascent silk nanoribbon film/regenerative silk fibroin film (SNRF/RSFF)41.64 V/0.0867100[65]
-
SF/Indium tin oxide (ITO) coated polyethylene terephthalate(PET)218.1 V/0.0680.1–100 [53]
Silk/Pl/Al-0.00435 [66]
silk fiber/stainless steel fiber and polytetrafuoroethylene fiber/stainless steel fiber 27 V/
-		0.003550 [67]
-
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Table 3. Comparison of efficiency parameters for silk fibroin-based batteries.
Table 3. Comparison of efficiency parameters for silk fibroin-based batteries.
MaterialDischarge CapacityReference
MoS2/Carbonized Silk electrode2895 mAh/g[77]
Hierarchical porous nitrogen doped carbon nanosheets 1865 mAh/g[37]
ZnCo2O4 nanocubes–CSF778 mAh/g[78]
Silk derived substrates for Zn-Air batteries 614.7 mAh/g[79]
Nano porous carbon nanosheets 383 mAh/g[80]
Battery separators based on silk fibroin sponges prepared by lyophilization126 mAh/g[74]
Silk fibroin separator membranes for lithium-ion batteries131.3 mAh/g[75]
Bombyx mori cocoon separators for high-performance and sustainable lithium-ion batteries96.7 mAh/g[33]
Bombyx mori silkworm cocoons separators for lithium (Li)-ion batteries86 mAh/g[72]
Mg-Air Biobatteries of silk fiber – polypyrrole(SF-PPy) Film3.79 mAh/cm2[69]

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