Polymer Stretchable Supercapacitor Fibres for Textile Energy Storage

该项目旨在研究由导电聚合物制成的超级电容纤维的设计和制造。这些纤维将由用溶剂溶胀的互连网络制成，以产生凝胶结构，从而提供高弹性行为，从而产生用于能量存储的高性能可拉伸织物。这些纤维的制造将使用低能耗，低成本的方法进行，这些方法理想地可扩展，以使这些纤维的未来大规模制造成为可能。纳米结构的电荷存储容量和电荷转移速率将被优化，以产生具有高比能量和高比功率的超级电容纤维，这可能导致有机超级电容器与今天看到的市售无机超级电容器相当，但具有改善的耐磨性。

This project aims to investigate the design and manufacture of supercapacitive fibres made from conducting polymers. These fibres will be made of interconnected networks swollen with solvent to create a gel structure, to give highly elastic behaviour leading to high-performance stretchable fabrics for energy storage. Manufacture of these fibres will be performed using low-energy, low-cost methods that are ideally scalable, to enable future mass-manufacture of these fibres. Charge storage capacity and rates of charge transfer of the nanostructures will be optimised to produce supercapacitive fibres with both a high specific energy and a high specific power, potentially leading to organic supercapacitors that are comparable to the commercially available inorganic ones seen today, but with improved wearability.