All‐Climate Stretchable Dendrite‐Free Zn‐Ion Hybrid Supercapacitors Enabled by Hydrogel Electrolyte Engineering

• Published in: Energy & environmental materials (Hoboken, N.J.) Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 384 - n/a
• Main Authors: Jiang, Yuqi, Ma, Kun, Sun, Meiling, Li, Yuanyuan, Liu, Jinping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.03.2023; Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials,Ministry of Education,School of Physics and Electronic Engineering,Harbin Normal University,Harbin 150025,China; State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China%The Institute of Technological Sciences,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430072,China%School of Chemistry,Chemical Engineering and Life Science,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China%School of Optical and Electronic Information,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China%State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China
• Subjects: Activated carbon; all‐climate operation; Capacitance; Cathodes; Climate; Compressibility; Dendrites; dendrite‐free anode; Electric vehicles; Electrolytes; Flexibility; Freezing; Glycerol; high flexibility; Hydrogels; Hydrogen bonds; Interlayers; Ion currents; Low temperature; Manganese dioxide; multifunctional gel electrolyte; Supercapacitors; Thawing; Zinc; Zn‐ion hybrid supercapacitor; all-climate operation; high flexibility; dendrite-free anode; Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitor; multifunctional gel electrolyte

Hybrid supercapacitors have shown great potentials to fulfill the demand of future diverse applications such as electric vehicles and portable/wearable electronics. In particular, aqueous zinc‐ion hybrid supercapacitors (ZHSCs) have gained much attention due to their low‐cost, high energy density, a...