Issue 22/2018 - Nonwoven electrode materials incarnate as flexible supercapacitors

At present, wearable devices such as smart bracelets, smart watches, and Google Glass have been integrated into many people's daily lives, but providing stable power supply for wearable devices for a long time is still a major challenge
in this field.
Recently, Chen Su's research group at Nanjing University of Technology created a non-woven electrode material through microfluidic spinning technology, which can supply energy for wearable devices, and the research results were published in
Nature Communications.

The researchers pulled the black phosphorus composite spinning liquid through microfluidic spinning technology to pull, solidify and fuse into black phosphorus micro-nano composite fiber non-woven electrode materials, so that it has the characteristics of high conductivity and high energy density, and built into a flexible supercapacitor, which has high flexibility and deformation ability, and can be integrated into the fabric to supply energy
for wearable devices.
The research results have improved the awareness level of constructing one-Wiena microfiber energy storage wearable materials in microfluidic confined space, and are expected to be widely used
in wearable fields such as LEDs, smart bracelets, and flexible displays.