Issue 6, 2024

Recent progress in self-healable energy harvesting and storage devices – a future direction for reliable and safe electronics

Abstract

Electronic devices with multiple features bring in comfort to the way we live. However, repeated use causes physical as well as chemical degradation reducing their lifetime. The self-healing ability is the most crucial property of natural systems for survival in unexpected situations and variable environments. However, this self-repair property is not possessed by the conventional electronic devices designed today. To expand their lifetime and make them reliable by restoring their mechanical, functional, and electrical properties, self-healing materials are a great go-to option to create robust devices. In this review the intriguing self-healing polymers and fascinating mechanism of self-healable energy harvesting devices such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) and storage devices like supercapacitors and batteries from the aspect of electrodes and electrolytes in the past five years are reviewed. The current challenges, strategies, and perspectives for a smart and sustainable future are also discussed.

Graphical abstract: Recent progress in self-healable energy harvesting and storage devices – a future direction for reliable and safe electronics

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
21 Way 2023
Accepted
03 Qun 2024
First published
09 Qun 2024

Mater. Horiz., 2024,11, 1395-1413

Recent progress in self-healable energy harvesting and storage devices – a future direction for reliable and safe electronics

J. Chandrasekar, M. Venkatesan, T. Sun, Y. Hsu, Y. Huang, W. Chen, M. Chen, M. Tsai, J. Chen, J. Lin, Y. Zhou and C. Kuo, Mater. Horiz., 2024, 11, 1395 DOI: 10.1039/D3MH01519J

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements