Quaternized chitosan-assisted <i>in situ</i> synthesized CuS/cellulose nanofibers conductive paper for flexible electrode

Xiujie Huang; Bichong Luo; Chuanfu Liu; Linxin Zhong; Dongdong Ye; Xiaoying Wang

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Quaternized chitosan-assisted in situ synthesized CuS/cellulose nanofibers conductive paper for flexible electrode

Xiujie Huang^{¹^,^§}, Bichong Luo^{¹^,^§}, Chuanfu Liu^¹, Linxin Zhong^¹, Dongdong Ye^², Xiaoying Wang^¹(

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1 State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510640, China

2 School of Textile Materials and Engineering, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China

^§ Xiujie Huang and Bichong Luo contributed equally to this work.

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Cellulose nanofibers (CNF) are considered to be a potential substrate of energy material for energy storage devices due to the foldable, lightweight, recyclable and environmentally friendly feature. However, the energy materials tend to distribute unevenly or fall off from CNF easily, resulting in the decrease of the devices’ overall performance. Here, for the first time, we used quaternized chitosan (QCS) as stabilizer and adhesive to in situ synthesize and deposite copper sulfide nanocrystals (CuS-NCs) on CNF and further obtained the conductive paper for flexible supercapacitors. In the presence of QCS, CuS-NCs deposited in situ on CNF can be capped and stabilized by the QCS molecular chains for uniform distribution, which is conducive to the capacitive behavior and electrochemical stability of composite paper. The result shows that the specific capacitance of the composite paper was as high as 314.3 F/g at a current density of 1 A/g, a high rate capacitance of 252.6 F/g was achieved even at a high current density of 10 A/g. It reveals that the composite paper exhibited better electrochemical performance than many other CuS-based electrode materials for supercapacitor. More importantly, the composite paper performed well in various folding state without changing much electrochemical performance. Therefore, this work provides a novel strategy to in situ fabricate paper-based electrode for next- generation ﬂexible energy-storage system.

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copper sulfide nanocrystals cellulose nanofiber quaternized chitosan supercapacitors flexible devices

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Nano Research

Volume 14 Issue 7,
July 2021

Pages 2390-2397

DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-3240-8

Cite this article:

Huang X, Luo B, Liu C, et al. Quaternized chitosan-assisted in situ synthesized CuS/cellulose nanofibers conductive paper for flexible electrode. Nano Research, 2021, 14(7): 2390-2397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3240-8

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Capacitance Cerium compounds Copper compounds Electrochemical electrodes Energy storage Nanofibers Sulfur compounds Supercapacitor

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Received: 11 September 2020

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Published: 05 July 2021