Runfeng Yu,Yunfei Xu,Xuxian Liu,Guoxin Zhang,Huiping Du,Ze Yang,Yaqun Wang
Currently, the utilization of flexible zinc ion batteries offers significant safety advantages for flexible energy storage devices. However, the limited mass-loading of these batteries presents a challenge to their long-term operation in such devices, thereby hindering further advancements. To address this, we present a mechanically flexible zinc-ion battery featuring a screen-printed PANI cathode. This battery achieves high loading and low weight, resulting in an energy density of 1.247mAh cm −2 and a maximum mass-loading of 15.78 mg cm −2 . Notably, the battery demonstrates excellent electrochemical performance, even when subjected to challenging conditions like hammering, sewing, stretching, cutting and bending.
With the rapid development of modern information technology, high-level electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbing materials are playing an increasingly important role in military and civilian fields. However, current EMW absorbers usually have narrow absorption bandwidths and low absorption strengths , which hinder their practical applications. Herein, lightweight aerogels with low thermal conductivity and highly efficient EMW absorption were fabricated via a sol–gel method and subsequent carbothermal reduction with a simple chemical reaction process. The as-prepared graphene/SiC-nanosheets aerogels are composed of a large number of the interconnected two-dimensional SiC nanosheets and graphene sheets with abundant micrometer-sized pores that favored impedance matching, which endows the aerogels with outstanding EMW-absorbing performance. Conductive loss and interfacial polarization further promote the EMW-absorbing of the graphene/SiC-nanosheets aerogels. In addition, the highly porous and interconnected three-dimensional graphene/SiC-nanosheets aerogel networks not only facilitate the absorption of infiltrated EM waves via multiple reflection but also effectively reduce the number of heat transmission routes in the aerogels. The as-prepared SiC/G-2 aerogel exhibites excellent EMW-absorbing property, with a RL min of −65.08 dB at a frequency of 13.20 GHz, a thickness of 3.5 mm and an EAB of 2.21 GHz. These results demonstrate that the as-prepared graphene/SiC-nanosheets aerogel is fascinating material with possible applications in high-performance EMW-absorbing and heat-insulating in the aviation and aerospace fields.