Towards textile energy storage from cotton T-shirts.

Bao, Lihong; Li, Xiaodong · Adv Mater · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A simple chemical activation route is developed to convert insulating cotton T-shirt textiles into highly conductive and flexible activated carbon textiles (ACTs) for energy-storage applications. Such conversion gives these ACTs an ideal electrical double-layer capacitive behavior. The constructed asymmetric supercapacitors based on the ACTs and MnO(2)/ACT composite show superior electrochemical performances.

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