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Enhancement of the Performance Properties of Pure Cotton Fabric by Incorporating Conducting Polymer (PEDOT:PSS) for Flexible and Foldable Electrochemical Applications

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Pure natural cotton has flexible and foldable characteristics with a high response rate which makes it an excellent candidate for the development of low-cost electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors. Here, a composite of cotton (C/P:P) with different ratios of conducting polymer, poly(3, 4-ethylene dioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), was developed through polymerization using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as a physical cross-linker. A hydrogel electrolyte has been developed using natural polymer starch and sodium alginate. The fabricated supercapacitor utilizing the developed composite and the hydrogel electrolyte has been analyzed by employing different characterization techniques. The structural properties of pure and composite electrodes (C/P:P) were investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy; the surface morphology was elucidated by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). Thermal properties were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Sheet resistance was measured for the composite with different ratios of PEDOT:PSS in which 2.5 wt.% of PEDOT PSS showed the lowest sheet resistance of 1.22 Ω/square. Electrochemical studies were carried out utilizing cyclic voltammetry and the composite cotton-based symmetric supercapacitor was found to achieve a specific capacitance of 296 F/g at 100 mA g−1. The intrinsic properties of the symmetric composite cotton supercapacitors were also verified by operating a light-emitting diode (LED).

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The authors would like to thank Universiti Malaya for providing the facilities to conduct the project. No funding involved.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Centre for Ionics University of Malaya, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    M Nujud Badawi, S. Ramesh & K. Ramesh

  2. College of Science, University of Hafr Al–Batin, Hafer Al-Batin, 39921, Saudi Arabia

    M Nujud Badawi

  3. Department of Physics, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 110019, India

    Mamta Bhatia

  4. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Mujeeb Khan & Syed Farooq Adil

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Nujud Badawi, M., Bhatia, M., Ramesh, S. et al. Enhancement of the Performance Properties of Pure Cotton Fabric by Incorporating Conducting Polymer (PEDOT:PSS) for Flexible and Foldable Electrochemical Applications. J. Electron. Mater. 52, 2201–2215 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-022-10170-3

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