Polypyrrole in-situ polymerized MXene/TPU fiber electrode for flexible supercapacitors

Abstract

Ti3C2Tx-based flexible fibers have great potential and wide applications in the energy storage field of wearable electronic textiles and portable electronic devices. This work reports a Ti3C2Tx-MXene/TPU/polypyrrole(PPy) fiber in which PPy is grown on the surface of Ti3C2Tx/TPU fiber by in-situ polymerization. Through efficient wet spinning and in-situ polymerization, Ti3C2Tx/TPU/PPy fiber exhibit pore structure and abundant active sites, which significantly enhance charge transfer rate and conductivity. The fiber exhibits a capacitance of 41.2 F g−1(5 mV S−1) and excellent rate performance in 1 M H2SO4 electrolyte. Its symmetrical fiber-based flexible supercapacitors(SCs) can provide an energy density of 2.36 mW h g−1. At the same time, the fiber has good flexibility and can be woven into a fabric SCs as a wearable energy storage device to realize power supply applications such as electronic watches and LEDs, which provides a potential strategy for the application of flexible wearable energy storage devices.