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Polymer Composites for Flexible Energy and Electronic Devices

A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 3013

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School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Interests: conducting polymers; 2D materials; composites; wearable electronics; energy storage
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Dear Colleagues,

The ever-growing demand for wearable electronics has triggered the development of various flexible energy and sensing devices. Polymer composites have found broad applications in these fields. This Special Issue in Polymers aims to collect original research papers, review papers, or short communications that discuss related aspects in the following field but not limited to:

  • Polymer composites for flexible energy generation, harvesting and storage applications, such as triboelectric nanogenerators, solar cells, thermoelectric cells, supercapacitors and batteries.
  • Polymer composites for flexible skin conformal sensors, including strain sensors, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, gas sensors, electrochemical sensors, light sensors, etc.

Dr. Chen Zhao
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • polymer composites
  • flexible electrodes
  • energy generation
  • energy harvesting
  • energy storage
  • sensors

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Review
Nanocomposites of Conducting Polymers and 2D Materials for Flexible Supercapacitors
by Haipeng Zhu, Ruiqi Xu, Tao Wan, Wenxiong Yuan, Kewei Shu, Natkritta Boonprakob and Chen Zhao
Polymers 2024, 16(6), 756; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16060756 - 9 Mar 2024
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Abstract
Flexible supercapacitors (FSCs) with high electrochemical and mechanical performance are inevitably necessary for the fabrication of integrated wearable systems. Conducting polymers with intrinsic conductivity and flexibility are ideal active materials for FSCs. However, they suffer from poor cycling stability due to huge volume [...] Read more.
Flexible supercapacitors (FSCs) with high electrochemical and mechanical performance are inevitably necessary for the fabrication of integrated wearable systems. Conducting polymers with intrinsic conductivity and flexibility are ideal active materials for FSCs. However, they suffer from poor cycling stability due to huge volume variations during operation cycles. Two-dimensional (2D) materials play a critical role in FSCs, but restacking and aggregation limit their practical application. Nanocomposites of conducting polymers and 2D materials can mitigate the above-mentioned drawbacks. This review presents the recent progress of those nanocomposites for FSCs. It aims to provide insights into the assembling strategies of the macroscopic structures of those nanocomposites, such as 1D fibers, 2D films, and 3D aerogels/hydrogels, as well as the fabrication methods to convert these macroscopic structures to FSCs with different device configurations. The practical applications of FSCs based on those nanocomposites in integrated self-powered sensing systems and future perspectives are also discussed. Full article
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