Citation: Ning Fandi, Shen Yangbin, Bai Chuang, Wei Jun, Lu Guanbin, Cui Yi, Zhou Xiaochun. Critical importance of current collector property to the performance of flexible electrochemical power sources[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2019, 30(6): 1282-1288. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2019.02.032 shu

Critical importance of current collector property to the performance of flexible electrochemical power sources

Ning Fandi ^a,b ,
Shen Yangbin ^b ,
Bai Chuang ^a,b ,
Wei Jun ^a,b ,
Lu Guanbin ^b ,
Cui Yi ^a,d, ,
Zhou Xiaochun ^a,b,c,

a.
Nano Science and Technology Institute, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou 215123, China
b.
Division of Advanced Nanomaterials, Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Suzhou 215123, China
c.
Division of Nanomaterials, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Nanchang, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Nanchang 330200, China
d.
Vacuum Interconnected Workstation, Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Suzhou 215123, China

Received Date: 24 December 2018
Revised Date: 17 January 2019
Accepted Date: 28 February 2019
Available Online: 28 June 2019

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Flexible electrochemical power sources are attracting increasing attentions for their unique advantages like flexibility, shape diversity, light weight and excellent mechanical properties. In this research, we discover that the current collector can dramatically affect the performance of flexible electrochemical power sources with large size. For flexible air-breathing proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), the performance could have more than 8 times increase by only adjusting the directions of current collectors. The different performances of different current collection types are mainly attributed to the diverse lengths of the electron transfer pathways. In addition, the conductivity of current collector can dramatically affect the capability of flexible PEMFCs with large-size. The flexible PEMFCs with thicker carbon nanotube membrane as current collector (low electric resistance) show higher ability. A mathematic model is successfully built in this work to further understand the performance. Moreover, the model and simulation are also applicable to other flexible power sources, such as flexible Li-ion battery and supercapacitor.
- Flexible,
- Fuel cell,
- CNT membrane,
- Current collector,
- Li-ion battery,
- Supercapacitor,
- Large-size
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