IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/renene/v194y2022icp80-88.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Reducible, recyclable and reusable (3R) hydrogel electrolyte membrane based on Physical&Chemical Bi-networks and reversible sol-gel transition

Author

Listed:
  • Zhang, Qianqian
  • Zhao, Lei
  • Ran, Fen

Abstract

Hydrogel electrolytes are attracting growing interest in the various fields, and tremendous efforts have been widely made for enhancing the hydrogel electrolyte of flexible devices. However, conventional hydrogel electrolytes generally contain non-degradable and non-renewable polymer matrix materials, inevitably causing waste of resources and environmental pollution, which fundamentally restricts the utilization of hydrogel electrolyte in the aspect of energy storage device during daily use. In this work, a novel flexible hydrogel electrolyte, that can be reducible, recyclable, and reusable (3R), is fabricated through physical and chemistry double crosslinking among carboxylated chitosan, N-methylol acrylamide, N, N′-methylene bisacrylamide, and potassium persulfate, followed by intense uptake of Li2SO4 electrolyte. The hydrogel electrolyte membrane displays high ionic conductivity of 3.52 × 10−2 S cm−1, and exhibits 348.92% electrolyte uptake., The flexible quasi-solid supercapacitor assembled with the hydrogel electrolyte shows remarkable electrochemical performance like high capacitance retention of 83% and outstanding energy density of 8.74 Wh kg−1. Interestingly, the renewable performance of hydrogel electrolyte membrane is observed when the hydrogel electrolyte membrane suffered from heating to cooling cycle, which allows to easily realize multiple regeneration of electrolyte membrane based on the reversible sol-gel transition. This work provides a promising route to design a hydrogel electrolyte membrane with infinite regeneration times for flexible energy storage devices in the future.

Suggested Citation

  • Zhang, Qianqian & Zhao, Lei & Ran, Fen, 2022. "Reducible, recyclable and reusable (3R) hydrogel electrolyte membrane based on Physical&Chemical Bi-networks and reversible sol-gel transition," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 194(C), pages 80-88.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:194:y:2022:i:c:p:80-88
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.072
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148122007133
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.072?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Dashuai Zhu & Zhenhua Li & Ke Huang & Thomas G. Caranasos & Joseph S. Rossi & Ke Cheng, 2021. "Minimally invasive delivery of therapeutic agents by hydrogel injection into the pericardial cavity for cardiac repair," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Doyeon Koo & Xiao Cheng & Shreya Udani & Sevana Baghdasarian & Dashuai Zhu & Junlang Li & Brian Hall & Natalie Tsubamoto & Shiqi Hu & Jina Ko & Ke Cheng & Dino Di Carlo, 2024. "Optimizing cell therapy by sorting cells with high extracellular vesicle secretion," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-14, December.
    2. Jinying Li & Yuejun Yao & Jiayi Zhou & Zhuoheng Yang & Chen Qiu & Yuwen Lu & Jieqi Xie & Jia Liu & Tuoying Jiang & Yaohui Kou & Zhen Ge & Ping Liang & Cong Qiu & Liyin Shen & Yang Zhu & Changyou Gao &, 2024. "Epicardial transplantation of antioxidant polyurethane scaffold based human amniotic epithelial stem cell patch for myocardial infarction treatment," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-16, December.
    3. S. M. Shatil Shahriar & Alec D. McCarthy & Syed Muntazir Andrabi & Yajuan Su & Navatha Shree Polavoram & Johnson V. John & Mitchell P. Matis & Wuqiang Zhu & Jingwei Xie, 2024. "Mechanically resilient hybrid aerogels containing fibers of dual-scale sizes and knotty networks for tissue regeneration," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-15, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:194:y:2022:i:c:p:80-88. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.