Electrochromic fiber-shaped supercapacitors

Xuli Chen; Huijuan Lin; Jue Deng; Ye Zhang; Xuemei Sun; Peining Chen; Xin Fang; Zhitao Zhang; Guozhen Guan; Huisheng Peng

doi:10.1002/adma.201403243

Electrochromic fiber-shaped supercapacitors

Adv Mater. 2014 Dec 23;26(48):8126-32. doi: 10.1002/adma.201403243. Epub 2014 Oct 22.

Authors

Xuli Chen¹, Huijuan Lin, Jue Deng, Ye Zhang, Xuemei Sun, Peining Chen, Xin Fang, Zhitao Zhang, Guozhen Guan, Huisheng Peng

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, PR China.

PMID: 25338545
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201403243

Abstract

An electrochromic fiber-shaped super-capacitor is developed by winding aligned carbon nanotube/polyaniline composite sheets on an elastic fiber. The fiber-shaped supercapacitors demonstrate rapid and reversible chromatic transitions under different working states, which can be directly observed by the naked eye. They are also stretchable and flexible, and are woven into textiles to display designed signals in addition to storing energy.

Keywords: electrochromic materials; energy storage; fibers; supercapacitors.