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Double-kill contribution of high-roughness high-density porous carbon electrodes to mechanically self-sensing supercapacitors

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Impact detecting and counting are fundamental functions of fuses used in hard target penetration weapons. However, detection failure caused by battery breakdown in high-g acceleration environments poses a vulnerability for such weapons. This paper introduces a novel supercapacitor that combines energy storage and high-g impact detection, called self-sensing supercapacitor. By deliberately inducing a transient soft short-circuit during shock in the supercapacitor, it is possible to detect external impact by its transient voltage drop. To realize this concept, firstly, by introducing the contact theory and force-induced percolation model, the electrode strength and roughness are found to have key impacts on the formation of soft circuits. Subsequently, to meet the needs for sensitivity and capacity, a high-density porous carbon (HDPC) that combines high mechanical strength and porosity, is selected as a suitable candidate based on the analysis results. Furthermore, a two-step curing method is proposed to prepare the high-roughness HDPC (HRHDPC) electrode and to assemble the self-sensing supercapacitor. Due to the rich specific surface of the electrodes and the high surface strength and roughness conducive to the formation of transient soft short circuits, the self-sensing supercapacitor not only possesses an excellent specific capacitance (171 F/g at 0.5 A/g) but also generates significant voltage response signals when subjected to high-g impacts ranging from 8000g to 31,000g. Finally, the self-sensing supercapacitor is applied to compose a successive high-g impact counting system and compared to traditional solutions (sensors and tantalum capacitors) in the military fuzes. The results show that the self-sensing supercapacitor-based system exhibits advantages in terms of size, power consumption, and counting accuracy.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52007084) and in part by the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (No. 2023QNRC001).

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  1. Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Bei**g, 100084, China

    Jue Huang, Yiqun Wang, Keren Dai, **aofeng Wang & Zheng You

  2. State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Bei**g, 100084, China

    Jue Huang, Yiqun Wang, **aofeng Wang & Zheng You

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Pengyu Liu & Qingyun Dou

  4. ZNDY of Ministerial Key Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Nan**g University of Science and Technology, Nan**g, 210094, China

    Keren Dai

  5. Qiyuan Laboratory, Bei**g, 100095, China

    Yajiang Yin

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Huang, J., Liu, P., Wang, Y. et al. Double-kill contribution of high-roughness high-density porous carbon electrodes to mechanically self-sensing supercapacitors. Nano Res. 17, 6157–6167 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6607-4

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