초록 |
Conducting Polymer Hydrogels (CPHs) could provide 3-D interconnected electrical pathways, which can be beneficially applied to electrochemical devices such as bioelectronics, sensors and energy storage devices. One of the popular methods for CPHs synthesis is to form a 3-D network of conducting polymers, such as polyaniline, with crosslinking agents. Here, we synthesize polyaniline-based CPHs film by using aniline (monomer), ammonium persulfate (initiator) and phytic acid (crosslinker) and investigate the effect of the composition, thickness of the film and drying time on the electrical properties of the resulting CPHs. It is confirmed that the synthesis composition affects the length of the polymer chains, resulting in change in the microscopic morphology and the conductivity of the CPHs. Furthermore, we demonstrate a prototype of a soft-supercapacitor based on the polyaniline CPH electrodes. |