Conducting polymer hydrogel materials for high-performance flexible solid-state supercapacitors

Abstract

Different from solid electrodes, conducting polymer hydrogel electrodes swollen with water and ions, can reach contact with the electrolyte solution at the molec-ular level, which will result in more efficient electrochemical process of supercapacitors. Besides, the inherent soft nature of hydrogel material offers the electrode superior flexibility, which benefits to gain high flexibility for devices. Here, this perspective briefly introduces the current research progress in the field of conducting polymer hydrogel electrodes-based flexible solid-state supercapacitor and gives an outlook on the future trend of research.