PMID- 37156144 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20230525 LR - 20230525 IS - 1095-7103 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9797 (Linking) VI - 645 DP - 2023 Sep TI - Aqueous MXene inks for inkjet-printing microsupercapacitors with ultrahigh energy densities. PG - 359-370 LID - S0021-9797(23)00755-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.04.155 [doi] AB - Although inkjet-printing technology has achieved significant development in preparing scalable and adaptable energy storage devices for portable and micro devices, searching for additive-free and environmentally friendly aqueous inks is a significant challenge. Hence, an aqueous MXene/sodium alginate-Fe(2+) hybrid ink (denoted as MXene/SA-Fe) with solution processability and suitable viscosity is prepared for direct inkjet printing microsupercapacitors (MSCs). The SA molecules are adsorbed on the surface of MXene nanosheets to construct three-dimensional (3D) structures, thus effectively alleviating the two notorious problems of oxidation and self-restacking of MXene. Concurrently, Fe(2+) ions can compress the ineffective macropore volume and make the 3D structure more compact. Moreover, the hydrogen and covalent bonding formed between the MXene nanosheet, SA, and Fe(2+) effectively protects the oxidation of MXene and thus increases its stability. Thus, the MXene/SA-Fe ink endows the inkjet-printed MSC electrode with abundant active sites for ion storage and a highly conductive network for electron transfer. As a demonstration, the MXene/SA-Fe ink is used to direct inkjet-printed MSCs with an electrode spacing of 310 mum, which exhibit remarkable capacitances of 123.8 mF cm(-2) (@5 mV s(-1)), good rate capability, an extraordinary energy density of 8.44 muWh cm(-2) at a power density of 33.70 muW cm(-2), long-term cycling stability of 91.4 % capacitance retention after 10,000 cycles, and surprising mechanical durability with 90.0 % of its initial capacitance retained after 10,000 bending cycles. Therefore, MXene/SA-Fe inks are expected to create various opportunities for printable electronics. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Wang, Guixin AU - Wang G AD - College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China. FAU - Zhang, Rui AU - Zhang R AD - College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China. FAU - Zhang, Hongqiong AU - Zhang H AD - College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China. Electronic address: zhanghqiong@163.com. FAU - Cheng, Kui AU - Cheng K AD - College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; Heilongjiang International Joint Laboratory of Smart Soil between Northeast Agricultural University and Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (NEAU-MPICI), Harbin 150030, China. Electronic address: chengkui@neau.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230503 PL - United States TA - J Colloid Interface Sci JT - Journal of colloid and interface science JID - 0043125 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - Flexible OT - Inkjet printing OT - Interface interactions OT - MXenes OT - Microsupercapacitors COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/05/09 00:42 MHDA- 2023/05/09 00:43 CRDT- 2023/05/08 18:06 PHST- 2023/02/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/04/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/04/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/05/09 00:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/05/09 00:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/05/08 18:06 [entrez] AID - S0021-9797(23)00755-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.04.155 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Colloid Interface Sci. 2023 Sep;645:359-370. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.04.155. Epub 2023 May 3.