A Highly Elastic and Reversibly Stretchable All‐Polymer Supercapacitor

Multiple stretchability has never been demonstrated as supercapacitors because the hydrogel used cannot fully recover after being heavily deformed. Now, a highly reversibly stretchable all‐polymer supercapacitor was fabricated using a developed double network hydrogel (DN hydrogel) as electrolyte and pure polypyrrole (PPy) as electrode. The DN hydrogel provides excellent mechanical properties, which can be stretched up to 500 % many times and then restore almost 100 % of the original length. To fabricate the fully recoverable stretchable supercapacitor, we annealed a free‐standing pure conducting polymer film as electrode so that the electrodes induced retardance is minimized. The as‐fabricated DN hydrogel/pure conducting polymer supercapacitors can be perfectly recovered from 100 % strain with almost no residual deformation left and the electrochemical performance can be maintained even after 1000 stretches (but not bending).     

Magnetic conducting composites based on polypyrrol and iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized via electrochemistry

In this work, the preparation of a polypyrrol-magnetite composite with good magnetic and electric properties is described. Firstly, the method consists of the electrochemical synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles 20 nm in diameter and narrow size distribution, and secondly, the encapsulation of the nanoparticles in a polymer matrix during its formation by chemical oxidation of the monomer. Particles appear well dispersed in the polymer matrix by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) while no degradation, in terms of nanoparticles size or magnetic properties during the polymer formation, seems to take place as it was revealed by X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Saturation magnetization increases with the amount of magnetic material present in the composite, but conductivity decreases in such a way that the amount of magnetic material was optimized to 10% with respect to the monomer to obtain a composite with high electrical conductivity and magnetic response.     

电化学制备钛网负载聚吡咯/石墨烯复合膜及其在超级电容器中的应用

通过电化学的方法在钛网上制备了聚吡咯与石墨烯的复合物薄膜,其过程是先在钛网上通过自组装干燥膜法附着上石墨烯氧化物膜,而后采用电化学还原的方法原位还原制备得到石墨烯膜,随后加入吡咯单体,再通过电化学聚合的方法在石墨烯的表面生长聚吡咯,得到的聚吡咯开始以颗粒的形式存在,而后随着聚合的进行得到了链状的聚吡咯.得到的复合膜有高的比表面积和导电性,可以作为电极活性材料用于超级电容器中提供赝电容,结果表明,复合膜作为电极材料的超级电容器拥有高的性能,比电容达400 F/g,并且电极的充放电稳定性高,5000次复合膜充放电循环后比电容还能保留82%,说明该材料适合于超级电容器.     

聚吡咯改性层状黏土/聚己内酯抗菌纳米复合材料的制备与性能

利用Fe³⁺引发吡咯（Py）在层状双羟基金属氧化物（LDHs）表面发生氧化反应,形成聚吡咯（PPy）包覆LDHs（LDHs@PPy）;以LDHs@PPy和聚己内酯（PCL）为原料,采用溶液浇筑方法制备LDHs@PPy/PCL纳米复合薄膜.研究结果表明,LDHs@PPy对大肠杆菌和金黄色葡萄球菌的抗菌率均达到99.7%,其与基材PCL界面相容性良好,而且在基材中还具有异相成核作用.当LDHs@PPy的质量分数仅为1%时,LDHs@PPy/PCL纳米复合材料的拉伸强度和断裂伸长率分别增加35%和23%,氧气渗透性降低幅度达到56%,对大肠杆菌和金黄色葡萄球菌的抗菌率均超过99.99%,表现出良好的抗菌活性,拓展了层状黏土/生物基高分子复合材料在活性包装领域的应用.     

Living and Conducting: Coating Individual Bacterial Cells with In Situ Formed Polypyrrole

Coating individual bacterial cells with conjugated polymers to endow them with more functionalities is highly desirable. Here, we developed an in situ polymerization method to coat polypyrrole on the surface of individual Shewanella oneidensis MR‐1, Escherichia coli, Ochrobacterium anthropic or Streptococcus thermophilus. All of these as‐coated cells from different bacterial species displayed enhanced conductivities without affecting viability, suggesting the generality of our coating method. Because of their excellent conductivity, we employed polypyrrole‐coated Shewanella oneidensis MR‐1 as an anode in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and found that not only direct contact‐based extracellular electron transfer is dramatically enhanced, but also the viability of bacterial cells in MFCs is improved. Our results indicate that coating individual bacteria with conjugated polymers could be a promising strategy to enhance their performance or enrich them with more functionalities.     

Electrochemical Preparation of Polypyrrole/Graphene Films on Titanium Mesh as Active Materials for Supercapacitors

Films of polypyrrole/graphene on titanium mesh were prepared by electrochemical reduction of the fresh dried foam films of graphene oxide followed by an electrochemical polymerization of pyrrole. The as-obtained composite had highly surface area, conductivity, and could be used as the electrode for supercapacitors, especially directly used as the active materials in free of binders while the Ti mesh worked as the collector. Plenty of polypyrrole nanoparticles formed on the surface of reduced graphene film, and some fiber-like aggregates could be formed during the polymerization, which worked as the material for pseudo-capacitance. The specific capacitance of the supercapacitor reached 400 F/g and showed high stability with retaining capacitance of 82% after 5000 cycles, indicating that the nanocomposite is a suitable active material for supercapacitors.     

Direct Visualization and Semi‐Quantitative Analysis of Payload Loading in the Case of Gold Nanocages

Upon incubation with Au nanocages, pyrrole (Py) molecules can enter the cavities by diffusing through the porous walls and then be polymerized to generate a polypyrrole (PPy) coating on the inner surface. The thicknesses of the PPy coating can serve as a direct indicator for the amount of Py molecules that diffuse into the cavity. Py molecules are able to diffuse into the cavities throughout the polymerization process, while a prolonged incubation time increases the amount of Py accumulated on both inner and outer surfaces of the nanocages. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the dimensions of the cavity and the size of the pores in the wall are not critical parameters in determining the loading efficiency, as they do not affect the thickness of the PPy coating on the inner surface. These findings offer direct evidence to support the applications of Au nanocages as carriers for drug delivery and controlled release.