Cable-type supercapacitors of three-dimensional cotton thread based multi-grade nanostructures for wearable energy storage

Abstract

A novel cable-type flexible supercapacitor with excellent performance is fabricated using 3D polypyrrole(PPy)-MnO2-CNT-cotton thread multi-grade nanostructure-based electrodes. The multiple supercapacitors with a high areal capacitance 1.49 F cm-2 at a scan rate of 1 mV s -1 connected in series and in parallel can successfully drive a LED segment display. Such an excellent performance is attributed to the cumulative effect of conducting single-walled carbon nanotubes on cotton thread, active mesoporous flower-like MnO2 nanoplates, and PPy conductive wrapping layer improving the conductivity, and acting as pseudocapacitance material simultaneously. Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.