Detailed Description
The endpoints and any values of the ranges disclosed herein are not limited to the precise range or value, and are understood to encompass values approaching those ranges or values. For numerical ranges, one or more new numerical ranges may be found between the endpoints of each range, between the endpoint of each range and the individual point value, and between the individual point value, in combination with each other, and are to be considered as specifically disclosed herein.
In a first aspect the present invention provides a wearable and chargeable and dischargeable fabric comprising: a fabric substrate and at least one battery cell supported on a surface of the fabric substrate; wherein,,
the battery unit comprises a positive plate and a negative plate;
the positive plate comprises a positive electrode material which is a conductive high polymer material;
the negative electrode plate comprises a negative electrode material, and the negative electrode material is a metal material;
the fabric substrate is charged and discharged by the battery unit when being wetted by electrolyte containing chloride ions;
the conductive polymer material is selected from polyaniline or polypyrrole.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the battery cell may be charged and discharged when polyaniline or polypyrrole is used as a positive electrode sheet, a metal material is used as a negative electrode sheet, and an aqueous solution containing chloride ions is used as an electrolyte.
The inventors of the present invention found in the study that the mechanism by which the battery cell can be charged and discharged is: for the positive electrode, the positive electrode emitsThe reaction is intercalation and deintercalation of chloride ions. During charging, -NH is oxidized to =nh + At the same time with Cl in the electrolyte - Bonding, in contrast, during discharge, cl - And can fall out of the positive electrode into the electrolyte. For the negative electrode, when charged, hydrogen evolution reaction and electroplating of metal ions occur on the surface of the metal material. During the discharge phase, metal ions are extracted from the surface of the metal material into the electrolyte.
In some embodiments of the invention, the fabric substrate is a hydrophilic material. Preferably, the hydrophilic material is selected from dacron and/or spandex.
The kind of the metal material is not particularly limited in the present invention, and may be selected by those skilled in the art according to actual demands. Preferably, the metallic material is selected from zinc, magnesium, aluminium, silver or sodium, preferably zinc. The embodiment of the present invention is exemplified by zinc, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
In some embodiments of the invention, the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet each further comprise a conductive base material for supporting the positive electrode material or the negative electrode material, respectively.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the conductive base material may be a conventional choice in the art, and one skilled in the art may choose according to actual needs. Preferably, the conductive base material is at least one selected from carbon cloth, conductive nickel cloth and conductive silver cloth, and is preferably carbon cloth.
In some embodiments of the present invention, in order to achieve charge and discharge of the fabric, chloride ions should be included in the electrolyte. Preferably, the electrolyte is selected from the group consisting of NaCl, KCl and NH 4 The liquid of at least one of Cl is preferably sweat, more preferably may be artificial sweat or real sweat, wherein the artificial sweat comprises sodium chloride, ammonium chloride, urea, acetic acid and lactic acid.
In some embodiments of the present invention, in order to ensure that the battery cell has excellent rate performance, a distance between the positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab is 0.1 to 2cm.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a method of making a wearable and chargeable and dischargeable fabric, the method comprising the steps of: loading the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate on the same fabric substrate to obtain the fabric; the positive plate comprises a positive electrode material, wherein the positive electrode material is a conductive high polymer material; the negative electrode plate comprises a negative electrode material, and the negative electrode material is a metal material; the conductive polymer material is selected from polyaniline or polypyrrole.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the method of making the wearable and chargeable and dischargeable fabric comprises the steps of: and directly loading the conductive high polymer material and the metal material on the same fabric substrate to obtain the fabric.
In some embodiments of the present invention, it is preferable that the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet further each include a conductive base material for supporting the positive electrode material or the negative electrode material, respectively.
In some embodiments of the present invention, preferably, the method for preparing the positive electrode sheet includes the steps of: and modifying the conductive high polymer material on the conductive base material to obtain the positive plate.
In some embodiments of the present invention, preferably, the preparation method of the negative electrode sheet includes the steps of: and modifying the metal material on the conductive substrate material to obtain the negative plate.
The modification mode is not particularly limited in the present invention, and may be performed according to conventional technical means in the art. Preferably, the modification means includes: electroplating, coating and printing, preferably electroplating.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the conductive base material may be a conventional choice in the art, and one skilled in the art may choose according to actual needs. Preferably, the conductive base material is at least one selected from carbon cloth, conductive nickel cloth and conductive silver cloth, and is preferably carbon cloth.
The kind of the metal material is not particularly limited in the present invention, and may be selected by those skilled in the art according to actual demands. Preferably, the metallic material is selected from zinc, magnesium, aluminium, silver or sodium, preferably zinc. The embodiment of the present invention is exemplified by zinc, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
In some embodiments of the present invention, preferably, the method for preparing the wearable and chargeable and dischargeable fabric comprises the steps of:
(1) Applying voltage to a carbon cloth substrate in a hydrochloric acid solution through an electrochemical workstation to carry out hydrophilization treatment, and then electroplating in a solution containing zinc ions through constant current to obtain a zinc/carbon cloth negative plate;
(2) Applying voltage to a carbon cloth substrate in a hydrochloric acid solution through an electrochemical workstation to carry out hydrophilization treatment, and then electroplating in a solution containing aniline or pyrrole monomers through constant current to obtain a polyaniline/carbon cloth positive plate or a polypyrrole/carbon cloth positive plate;
(3) And sewing the zinc/carbon cloth negative electrode sheet and the polyaniline/carbon cloth positive electrode sheet or the polypyrrole/carbon cloth positive electrode sheet on the same fabric substrate to obtain the fabric.
A third aspect of the present invention provides a method for charging and discharging a fabric according to the first aspect, wherein the charging process includes the following steps: wetting a fabric substrate contained in the fabric with electrolyte containing chloride ions, and switching on an external power supply to charge a positive plate and a negative plate contained in the fabric;
the discharging process comprises the following steps: and wetting a fabric substrate contained in the fabric with an electrolyte containing chloride ions, and connecting a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate contained in the fabric with electronic equipment to discharge.
The present invention will be described in detail by examples. In the following examples of the present invention,
and characterizing the composition of the negative plate by adopting an X-ray analyzer with the model of X' Pert 3 Powder. Test conditions: the scanning range is 10-80 degrees, the accelerating voltage is 40kV, and the accelerating current is 40mA;
characterizing the morphology of the positive plate and the negative plate by adopting a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with the model of Hitachi SU 8200;
carrying out Raman characterization on the positive plate by adopting a Raman spectrometer with the model of HORIBA Lab RAM HR Evolution;
and carrying out infrared characterization on the positive plate by adopting a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer with the model of VERTEX80 v.
In the following examples and comparative examples, all the raw materials are commercially available unless otherwise specified; wherein,,
artificial sweat was purchased from Shanghai Seiyaka Biotechnology Co., ltd under the designation R22790.
Example 1
(1) Preparing a zinc/carbon cloth negative plate:
firstly, ultrasonically cleaning the carbon cloth for 30min by using a mixed solution containing water, ethanol and acetone, ultrasonically cleaning the carbon cloth for 15min by using deionized water, repeating the steps for several times, and cleaning and airing. Secondly, in a hydrochloric acid solution containing 0.5M, a saturated calomel electrode is used as a reference electrode, pt is used as a counter electrode, carbon cloth is used as a working electrode, a constant voltage of 5V is applied for 3min through an electrochemical workstation, and deionized water is used for washing after the sample is taken out. Then, in the presence of 0.5M ZnSO 4 、1M NaSO 4 And 0.3M H 3 BO 3 In the mixed solution of (1), ag/AgCl is used as a reference electrode, pt is used as a counter electrode, carbon cloth is used as a working electrode, constant current of-40 mA is applied for 1h through an electrochemical workstation, and then the mixed solution is taken out and washed clean by deionized water, so that a zinc/carbon cloth negative plate is obtained.
And carrying out X-ray diffraction and SEM test on the prepared zinc/carbon cloth negative plate. Fig. 1 is an X-ray diffraction diagram of a zinc/carbon cloth negative plate, and fig. 1 shows the presence of zinc phase and carbon phase, wherein the peaks of the carbon substrate are near 22 °, and the rest of the peaks correspond to zinc (JCPDS No. 87-0713) card, without other phases and impurity peaks. Fig. 2 is a scanning electron microscope image of a zinc/carbon cloth negative plate, and fig. 2 shows that zinc presents a shape of a nano-plate, and the size of the zinc nano-plate is about several hundred nanometers.
(2) Preparing polyaniline/carbon cloth positive plates:
firstly, ultrasonically cleaning the carbon cloth for 30min by using a mixed solution containing water, ethanol and acetone, ultrasonically cleaning the carbon cloth for 15min by using deionized water, repeating the steps for several times, and cleaning and airing. Secondly, in a hydrochloric acid solution containing 0.5M, a saturated calomel electrode is used as a reference electrode, pt is used as a counter electrode, carbon cloth is used as a working electrode, a constant voltage of 5V is applied for 3min through an electrochemical workstation, and deionized water is used for washing after the sample is taken out. Then, in a mixed solution containing 5g of aniline monomer, 5.4mL of sulfuric acid, 14.2g of sodium sulfate and 200mL of deionized water, using Ag/AgCl as a reference electrode, pt as a counter electrode and carbon cloth as a working electrode, applying a constant current of 0.5mA for 1h through an electrochemical workstation, and then taking out and washing with deionized water to obtain a polyaniline/carbon cloth positive plate.
SEM, raman and infrared tests are carried out on the prepared polyaniline/carbon cloth positive electrode plate. FIG. 3 is an SEM image of a polyaniline/carbon cloth positive electrode sheet, the polyaniline being shown in FIG. 3 as exhibiting a nanorod structure, the nanorod having a size of about 50nm; FIG. 4 is a Raman spectrum of a polyaniline/carbon cloth positive plate at 1161cm -1 (C-H bending)、1341cm -1 (c=n stranding) and 1467cm -1 The raman peak at (c=c stretching) represents a characteristic peak of the benzene ring; at 1215cm -1 (C-H bending vibrations) and 1584cm -1 (c=c stretching) represents a characteristic peak of the quinone ring, indicating the presence of the quinone ring and the benzene ring in polyaniline; FIG. 5 is a Fourier infrared spectrum of a polyaniline/carbon cloth positive plate, 1629cm -1 The absorption peak at which is represented by c=c stretch on the quinone ring; 1493cm -1 、1328cm -1 And 1200cm -1 The absorption peaks at represent c=c stretching, c=n stretching and C-H bending on the benzene ring. The above results verify that the conductive polymer polyaniline is successfully prepared on the carbon cloth substrate.
(3) Preparation of the fabric:
and sewing the prepared polyaniline/carbon cloth positive electrode sheet and zinc/carbon cloth negative electrode sheet on the same polyester/spandex fabric substrate at intervals of 0.2cm to obtain the fabric.
And (3) dripping the artificial sweat on a fabric substrate to make the fabric substrate wet and conductive, so as to obtain the sweat-excited zinc/polyaniline cell. The sweat-excited zinc/polyaniline cell was connected to an electrochemical workstation for constant current charge and discharge testing. The zinc/polyaniline sweat-stimulated electricityThe open circuit voltage of the cell was about 1.4V. FIG. 6 is a constant current charge and discharge curve for a sweat-excited zinc/polyaniline cell with a maximum area specific capacity of 0.132mAh cm -2 . Fig. 7 is a graph of cycling stability of a sweat-activated zinc/polyaniline cell, and fig. 7 shows that after 500 cycles, the capacity retention was 51%.
Example 2
(1) Preparing a zinc/carbon cloth negative plate:
a zinc/carbon cloth negative electrode sheet was prepared as in example 1.
(2) Preparing a polypyrrole/carbon cloth positive plate:
firstly, ultrasonically cleaning the carbon cloth for 30min by using a mixed solution containing water, ethanol and acetone, ultrasonically cleaning the carbon cloth for 15min by using deionized water, repeating the steps for several times, and cleaning and airing. Secondly, in a hydrochloric acid solution containing 0.5M, a saturated calomel electrode is used as a reference electrode, pt is used as a counter electrode, carbon cloth is used as a working electrode, a constant voltage of 5V is applied for 3min through an electrochemical workstation, and deionized water is used for washing after the sample is taken out. Then, in a solution containing 5% of pyrrole monomer and 0.2M sodium perchlorate by volume fraction, pt is used as a counter electrode, ag/AgCl is used as a reference electrode, 0.8V voltage is applied for electroplating for 30 minutes, and then the solution is taken out and washed clean by deionized water, so that the polypyrrole/carbon cloth positive plate is obtained.
(3) And sewing the prepared polypyrrole/carbon cloth positive electrode plate and zinc/carbon cloth negative electrode plate on the same polyester/spandex fabric substrate at intervals of 0.2cm to obtain the fabric.
And (3) dripping the artificial sweat on a fabric substrate to make the fabric substrate wet and conductive, so as to obtain the sweat-excited zinc/polypyrrole battery. The sweat-excited zinc/polypyrrole battery is connected with an electrochemical workstation for constant-current charge and discharge test. The open circuit voltage of the sweat-excited cell is about 1.2V; FIG. 8 is a constant current charge and discharge curve for a sweat-excited zinc/polypyrrole cell having a maximum area specific capacity of 0.123mAh cm -2 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the Fig. 9 is a graph of cycling stability of a sweat-activated zinc/polypyrrole cell, after 200 cycles, with a capacity retention of 12%.
Example 3
(1) Preparation of electrode materials:
a zinc/carbon cloth negative electrode sheet and a polyaniline/carbon cloth positive electrode sheet were prepared according to the method in example 1.
(2) The prepared electrode materials are assembled into three independent sweat batteries, positive and negative electrodes of the sweat batteries are sequentially connected by using wires, so that the three sweat batteries are connected in series, and the voltage of the three sweat batteries becomes three times (4.8V) of that of a single battery after the three sweat batteries are connected in series according to a constant current charge-discharge curve of the sweat batteries shown in figure 10.
In summary, the fabric prepared by the method provided by the invention can be charged and discharged.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, but the present invention is not limited thereto. Within the scope of the technical idea of the invention, a number of simple variants of the technical solution of the invention are possible, including combinations of the individual technical features in any other suitable way, which simple variants and combinations should likewise be regarded as being disclosed by the invention, all falling within the scope of protection of the invention.