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Honeycomb-like polyaniline for flexible and folding all-solid-state supercapacitors

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Porous polyaniline (PANI) was prepared through an efficient and cost-effective method by polymerization of aniline in the NaCl solution at room temperature. The resulting PANI provided large surface area due to its highly porous structure and the intercrossed nanorod, resulting in good electrochemical performance. The porous PANI electrodes showed a high specific capacitance of 480 F·g−1, 3 times greater than that of PANI without using the NaCl solution. We also make chemically crosslinked hydrogel film for hydrogel polymer electrolyte as well as the flexible supercapacitors (SCs) with PANI. The specific capacitance of the device was 234 F·g−1 at the current density of 1 A·g−1. The energy density of the device could reach as high as 75 W·h·kg−1 while the power density was 0.5 kW·kg−1, indicating that PANI be a promising material in flexible SCs.

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We gratefully acknowledge financial supports from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB0102200; 2017YFB0102900) and the Shanghai Pujiang Program (17PJD016).

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  1. NEST Lab, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Ge Ju, Huiwen Zheng, Hongbin Zhao, Jiaqiang Xu & Jiujun Zhang

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Muhammad Arif Khan

  3. National Engineering Research Center for Supercapacitor for Vehicles, Shanghai AOWEI Technology Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 201203, China

    Zhongxun An & Mingxia Wu

  4. Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, National Research Council of Canada, 4250 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, Canada

    Lei Zhang

  5. National Centre of Excellence in Physical Chemistry, University of Peshawar, 25120, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Salma Bilal

  6. Institute of Sustainable Energy, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Jiujun Zhang

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Ju, G., Khan, M.A., Zheng, H. et al. Honeycomb-like polyaniline for flexible and folding all-solid-state supercapacitors. Front. Mater. Sci. 13, 133–144 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-019-0459-y

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