Interconnecting EDOT-Based Polymers with Native Lignin toward Enhanced Charge Storage in Conductive WoodShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ISSN 1944-8244, E-ISSN 1944-8252, Vol. 16, no 49, p. 68416-68425Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The 3D micro- and nanostructure of wood has extensively been employed as a template for cost-effective and renewable electronic technologies. However, other electroactive components, in particular native lignin, have been overlooked due to the absence of an approach that allows access of the lignin through the cell wall. In this study, we introduce an approach that focuses on establishing conjugated-polymer-based electrical connections at various length scales within the wood structure, aiming to leverage the charge storage capacity of native lignin in wood-based energy storage electrodes. We demonstrate that poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate) PEDOT/PSS, integrated within the cell wall lumen, can be interfaced with native lignin through the wood cell wall through in situ polymerization of a water-soluble S-EDOT monomer. This approach increases the capacitance of the conductive wood to 315 mF cm-2 at a scan rate of 5 mV s-1, which is seven and, respectively, two times higher compared to the capacitance of conductive wood made with the single components PEDOT/PSS or S-PEDOT. Moreover, we show that the capacitance is contributed by both the electroactive polymers and native lignin, with native lignin accounting for over 70% of the total charge storage capacity. We show that accessing native lignin through in situ creation of electrical interconnections within the wood structure offers a pathway toward sustainable, wood-based electrodes with improved charge-storage capacity for applications in electronics and energy storage.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society , 2024. Vol. 16, no 49, p. 68416-68425
Keywords [en]
Conducting polymers; Conjugated polymers; Elastomers; Ionomers; Semiconducting polymers; Silicones; Wood products; Wooden buildings; 3D microstructures; Cell walls; Charge storage; Charge storage capacity; Energy; Native lignins; Organic electronics; PEDOT; PEDOT/PSS; Wood structure; Lignin
National Category
Wood Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-76314DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c16298Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85211035055OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-76314DiVA, id: diva2:1924233
Note
The authors acknowledge funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW 2018.0452 and KAW2021.0313) through the Wallenberg Wood Science Center. We also acknowledge the support from Treesearch, a collaboration platform for Swedish forest industrial research.V.C.T. acknowledges support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW 2023.0468) for the postdoc-toral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We wish to thank Eleni Stavrinidou and Vasileios KOikonomou for their assistance with the trial of in situpolymerization of a PEDOT trimer (ETE-S) in wood. We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by BU Liquid Purification Technologies in supplying ion exchange resins foruse in the synthesis of S-PEDOT polymer.
2025-01-032025-01-032025-09-23Bibliographically approved