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Self-assembled functional components-doped conductive polypyrrole composite hydrogels with enhanced electrochemical performances

Abstract

A conductive hydrogel is a composite conductive material formed by combining a conductive polymer with a nanogel structure of a hydrogel. Conductive hydrogels not only have potential applications in supercapacitors, sensors, and modulators, they can also be synthesized by many methods, such as copolymerization, crosslinking, and grafting. In this work, we successfully prepared three conductive composite hydrogels by in situ polymerization, namely polypyrrole sodium alginate conductive hydrogel, ferric chloride-doped polypyrrole sodium alginate hydrogel and doped polypyrrole sodium alginate hydrogel with sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate. In addition, a series of characterizations were performed for the three conductive hydrogels described above. The results show that the polypyrrole sodium alginate hydrogel doped with ferric chloride forms a nanofiber network with a more stable structure and better electrochemical performance.

Graphical abstract: Self-assembled functional components-doped conductive polypyrrole composite hydrogels with enhanced electrochemical performances

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Jan 2020
Accepted
06 Mar 2020
First published
12 Mar 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2020,10, 10546-10551

Self-assembled functional components-doped conductive polypyrrole composite hydrogels with enhanced electrochemical performances

J. Yin, Q. Liu, J. Zhou, L. Zhang, Q. Zhang, R. Rao, S. Liu and T. Jiao, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 10546 DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00102C

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