Title
Self-Propelled Supercapacitors for On-Demand Circuit Configuration Based on WS2 Nanoparticles Micromachines
Date Issued
26 September 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad de Química y Tecnología de Praga
Publisher(s)
Wiley-VCH Verlag
Abstract
The miniaturization of energy storage microcapacitors to develop portable electronic devices has been of high recent interest. Here, microsupercapacitors microrobot is fabricated using membrane template-assisted electrodeposition of WS2 nanoparticles (WS2NPs)/polyaniline (PANI) and platinum (Pt) layers. The microrobot navigates in the microchannel and attaches itself as part of the electrical circuit. The attached WS2NPs-PANI/Pt microrobots enhance the capacitive behavior of the circuit significantly. The results presented in this work open the door for the development of smart and miniaturized functional micromotors that are able to self-assemble to on-demand circuits.
Start page
6662
End page
6667
Volume
26
Issue
36
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Electroquímica
Física de la materia condensada
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84973571026
Source
Advanced Functional Materials
ISSN of the container
1616301X
Sponsor(s)
M.P. acknowledges Tier 1 (99/13) grant from Ministry of Education, Singapore. J.G.S.M. is supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore under its National Research Foundation (NRF), Environmental and Water Technologies (EWT), and PhD Scholarship Programme and administered by the Environment and Water Industry Programme Office (EWI). M.P., A.C.F. and P.S. acknowledge the National Research Foundation Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme. Z.S. was supported by Czech Science Foundation (GACR No. 16-05167S).
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