Coaxial wet-spun yarn supercapacitors for high-energy density and safe wearable electronics

Yarn supercapacitors have great potential in future portable and wearable electronics because of their tiny volume, flexibility and weavability. However, low-energy density limits their development in the area of wearable high-energy density devices. How to enhance their energy densities while retaining their high-power densities is a critical challenge for yarn supercapacitor development. Here we propose a coaxial wet-spinning assembly approach to continuously spin polyelectrolyte-wrapped graphene/carbon nanotube core-sheath fibres, which are used directly as safe electrodes to assembly two-ply yarn supercapacitors. The yarn supercapacitors using liquid and solid electrolytes show ultra-high capacitances of…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 2010R10021, 51173162, 21325417
• FR
  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

  Award: 2013XZZX003
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province