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Ultrafast Charge And Discharge Biscrolled Yarn Supercapacitors For Textiles And Microdevices, Jae Ah Lee, Min-Kyoon Shin, Shi Hyeong Kim, Hyun U. Cho, Geoffrey Maxwell Spinks, Gordon G. Wallace, Marcio D. Lima, Xavier Lepro, Mikhail E. Kozlov, Ray H. Baughman, Seon Jeong Kim Mar 2014

Ultrafast Charge And Discharge Biscrolled Yarn Supercapacitors For Textiles And Microdevices, Jae Ah Lee, Min-Kyoon Shin, Shi Hyeong Kim, Hyun U. Cho, Geoffrey Maxwell Spinks, Gordon G. Wallace, Marcio D. Lima, Xavier Lepro, Mikhail E. Kozlov, Ray H. Baughman, Seon Jeong Kim

Gordon Wallace

Flexible, wearable, implantable and easily reconfigurable supercapacitors delivering high energy and power densities are needed for electronic devices. Here we demonstrate weavable, sewable, knottable and braidable yarns that function as high performance electrodes of redox supercapacitors. A novel technology, gradient biscrolling, provides fastion-transport yarn in which hundreds of layers of conducting-polymer-infiltrated carbon nanotube sheet are scrolled into similar to 20 mu m diameter yarn. Plying the biscrolled yarn with a metal wire current collector increases power generation capabilities. The volumetric capacitance is high (up to similar to 179 Fcm(-3)) and the discharge current of the plied yarn supercapacitor linearly increases …


A Nonconjugated Bridge In Dimer-Sensitized Solar Cells Retards Charge Recombination Without Decreasing Charge Injection Efficiency, Kenji Sunahara, Matthew J. Griffith, Takayuki Uchiyama, Pawel Wagner, David L. Officer, Gordon G. Wallace, Attila J. Mozer, Shogo Mori Mar 2014

A Nonconjugated Bridge In Dimer-Sensitized Solar Cells Retards Charge Recombination Without Decreasing Charge Injection Efficiency, Kenji Sunahara, Matthew J. Griffith, Takayuki Uchiyama, Pawel Wagner, David L. Officer, Gordon G. Wallace, Attila J. Mozer, Shogo Mori

Gordon Wallace

Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) employing a dimer porphyrin, which was synthesised with two porphyrin units connected without conjugation, have shown that both porphyrin components can contribute to photocurrent generation, that is, more than 50 % internal quantum efficiency. In addition, the open-circuit voltage (Voc) of the DSSCs was higher than that of DSSCs using monomer porphyrins. In this paper, we first optimized cell structure and fabrication conditions. We obtained more than 80% incident photon to current conversion efficiency from the dimer porphyrin sensitized DSSCs and higher Voc and energy conversion efficiency than monomer porphyrin sensitized solar cells. To examine …


Synthesis And Optimization Of Pedot:Pss Based Ink For Printing Nanoarrays Using Dip-Pen Nanolithography, Michal Wagner, Cathal O'Connell, David G. Harman, Ryan Sullivan, Ari Ivaska, Michael J. Higgins, Gordon G. Wallace Mar 2014

Synthesis And Optimization Of Pedot:Pss Based Ink For Printing Nanoarrays Using Dip-Pen Nanolithography, Michal Wagner, Cathal O'Connell, David G. Harman, Ryan Sullivan, Ari Ivaska, Michael J. Higgins, Gordon G. Wallace

Gordon Wallace

Due to the current interest in organic printable electronics, Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) is increasingly being explored as a method to pattern electroactive materials such as conducting polymers (CPs) on the micro- and nanoscale. In general, printing process depends strongly on the ink-substrate properties and fundamental forces required to drive and stabilize the ink transfer to the substrate. Controlling these parameters is especially difficult when operating under the nanometer confinements of the DPN probe. For the printing of CPs, one step towards addressing these challenges is rational ink design, as the use of existing commercial-based inks may not be suitable for …