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12-01-2022 | Original Contribution

Strong conductive hybrid hydrogel electrode based on inorganic hybrid crosslinking

Authors: Juan Du, Wenli Zhu, Qiaoling Yang, Xiaohong She, Hang Wu, Chihui Tsou, De Guzman Manuel, Huiping Huang

Published in: Colloid and Polymer Science | Issue 2/2022

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Polyaniline/poly(vinyl alcohol)/TiO₂ (PANI/PVA/TiO₂) hybrid hydrogels with improved mechanical and electrochemical properties were fabricated via in situ oxidative polymerization of aniline (ANI) and in situ synthesized TiO₂ with sol–gel method. Due to the combination of hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions among PANI, PVA, and TiO₂, this inorganic hybrid crosslinking structures enabled the PANI/PVA/TiO₂ hybrid hydrogel to possess reinforced tensile/compressive strength (26.5 kPa/8.2 MPa) and unprecedented self-healing performance. Moreover, with the optimized conductive pathways in the hybrid hydrogel, its conductivity was up to 1.38 S/m, which meets the requirement of being utilized as high-performance flexible solid-state supercapacitors. At current density of 0.5 A/g, the hydrogel-based supercapacitor provided a large capacitance of 41.0–127.5 F/g and a high energy density of 0.9–2.8 Wh/kg, which were superior to other flexible supercapacitors. The easily fabricated PANI/PVA/TiO₂ conducting hydrogels provides a novel strategy to prepare hydrogel electrodes for flexible energy storage devices.

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Title: Strong conductive hybrid hydrogel electrode based on inorganic hybrid crosslinking
Authors: Juan Du
Wenli Zhu
Qiaoling Yang
Xiaohong She
Hang Wu
Chihui Tsou
De Guzman Manuel
Huiping Huang
Publication date: 12-01-2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Colloid and Polymer Science / Issue 2/2022
Print ISSN: 0303-402X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-1536
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-021-04930-6

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