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Flexible Nanocellulose Based Energy Storage Devices
Leif Nyholm1,Zhaohui Wang1,Petter Tammela1,Ruijun Pan1,Maria Stromme1
Uppsala University1
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The strong need for the development of inexpensive, flexible, light-weight and environmentally friendly energy storage devices has resulted in large interest in new cellulose-based electrode materials that can be used in batteries and supercapacitors [1-3]. In this presentation it will be shown that flexible nanocellulose and polypyrrole composites, manufactured by chemical polymerization of e.g. pyrrole on a nanocellulose substrate, can be used as electrodes in charge storage devices containing either water or organic solvent based electrolytes. The aqueous flexible paper-based devices exhibit high charge storage capacities (e.g. 9 Wh/kg) as well as excellent power capabilities (e.g. 3.5 kW/kg) due to the large surface area (up to 250 m2/g) of the nanocellulose and the thin (i.e. 50 nm) layer of polypyrrole present on the nanocellulose fibers. The straightforward (paper-making) composite synthesis approach and the electrochemical properties of the resulting composites will be discussed. It will also be shown that high active mass paper electrodes [4-8] with mass loadings of up to 20 mg/cm2 can be employed at high current densities without significant loss of electrochemical performance as a result of the advantageous structure of the electrodes. Devices with unprecedented areal and volumetric cell capacitances (e.g. 5.7 F/cm2 and 240 F/cm3) that can cycle for thousands of cycles in aqueous electrolytes can likewise be realized. As the cellulose composites also can be used in lithium-ion batteries [9,10], functional (e.g. redox-active) separators [11] for lithium based batteries and in the realization of all-cellulose energy storage devices [12], the present materials provide new exciting possibilities for the development of green and foldable devices for a range of new applications, many of which are incompatible with conventional batteries and supercapacitors.
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