Affiliation:
1. Polymer Engineering Department Faculty of Chemical Engineering Tarbiat Modares University P.O.BOX 14115‐143 Tehran 1411713116 Iran
2. Department of Chemical Engineering Université Laval Quebec City QC G1V 0A6 Canada
3. Department of Materials and Polymer Engineering Faculty of Engineering Hakim Sabzevari University Sabzevar 9617976487 Iran
4. Nanoengineered Systems Laboratory UCL Mechanical Engineering University College London (UCL) London WC1E 7JE UK
5. Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences University College London London W1W 7TS UK
Abstract
AbstractThe recent and fast‐growing trends related to the development of wearable technologies have raised the need for efficient and high‐performance energy storage devices having extra features such as flexibility and lightweight. Polymer hydrogels, as viscoelastic lightweight porous nanostructures with tunable surface and structural properties, can play a crucial role in the design of these future energy storage devices. Herein, recent developments and progress in the use of polymer hydrogels to design flexible and wearable energy storage devices are presented and discussed. The 3D structure of polymer hydrogels and porous nanostructures based on these hydrogels provides a platform to design flexible supercapacitors, batteries, and personal thermal management devices. Herein, different types of polymer hydrogels are presented, and their main fabrication techniques are reported. Moreover, the main structural properties affecting the energy storage performance of polymer hydrogels are discussed. In addition to recent progress in the design of polymer‐hydrogel‐based wearable devices, recent developments in polymer hydrogels for flexible applications (batteries, supercapacitors, and thermal energy storage systems) are reviewed in detail.
Funder
Tarbiat Modares University
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science