Ultrathin Paper Microsupercapacitors for Electronic Skin ApplicationsShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Advanced Materials Technologies, E-ISSN 2365-709X, Vol. 7, no 8, article id 2101420Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Ultrathin devices are rapidly developing for skin-compatible medical applications and wearable electronics. Powering skin-interfaced electronics requires thin and lightweight energy storage devices, where solution-processing enables scalable fabrication. To attain such devices, a sequential deposition is employed to achieve all spray-coated symmetric microsupercapacitors (μSCs) on ultrathin parylene C substrates, where both electrode and gel electrolyte are based on the cheap and abundant biopolymer, cellulose. The optimized spraying procedure allows an overall device thickness of ≈11 µm to be obtained with a 40% active material volume fraction and a resulting volumetric capacitance of 7 F cm−3. Long-term operation capability (90% of capacitance retention after 104 cycles) and mechanical robustness are achieved (1000 cycles, capacitance retention of 98%) under extreme bending (rolling) conditions. Finite element analysis is utilized to simulate stresses and strains in real-sized μSCs under different bending conditions. Moreover, an organic electrochromic display is printed and powered with two serially connected μ-SCs as an example of a wearable, skin-integrated, fully organic electronic application. © 2022 The Authors.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2022. Vol. 7, no 8, article id 2101420
Keywords [en]
Biopolymers, Elasticity, Medical applications, Polyelectrolytes, Solid electrolytes, Structural design, Wearable technology, Advanced material technologies, Capacitance retention, Electronic skin, Gel electrolyte, Microsupercapacitors, Parylene C, Sequential deposition, Solution-processing, Symmetrics, Ultra-thin, Capacitance
National Category
Materials Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-59103DOI: 10.1002/admt.202101420Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85122328545OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-59103DiVA, id: diva2:1651857
Note
Funding details: European Research Council, ERC; Funding details: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse; Funding details: Horizon 2020, 949191; Funding details: Wallenberg Wood Science Center, WWSC; Funding text 1: The authors would like to thank the Swedish foundation for strategic research, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Wood Science Center) and the Önnesjö foundation. L.M. and E.D.G. are grateful for funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, Grant Agreement No. 949191; and the city council of Brno, Czech Republic. The computations were performed on resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at NSC and HPC2N.
2022-04-132022-04-132023-07-03Bibliographically approved