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High-performance cellulose based nanocomposite soft actuators with porous high-conductivity electrode doped by graphene-coated carbon nanosheet

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A nanocomposite soft actuator based on porous high-conductivity electrode membrane, which was composed of biopolymer cellulose mixed with chitosan and highly conductive nanoparticles generated by reduced graphene oxide encapsulated multi-walled carbon nanotube, was developed in this paper. No new substance was discovered in the regenerated electrode layer through the scanning analysis from FT-IR and XRD. Actuators exhibited significant enhancement in peak to peak displacement, which was 3.64 times increased than the traditional value at 5 V 0.1 Hz. With the test of solid-state electric double layer capacitor, actuators showed the highest specific capacitance (10.695 F g−1) at the current density of 1 A g−1, the lowest internal resistance (9.2 Ω g−1) in the frequency range of 105–10−2 Hz, and the lowest energy density (901 Wh kg−1) at the current density of 10 A g−1, which demonstrated the absolute advantages in the conductivity and channels for electrons. These findings suggest that research on porous high-conductivity electrode layer holds great promise in the further study of higher performance actuators.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (Grant No. 2018M630330), Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (Grant No. QC2018046), National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31470714), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2572017BB08).

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  1. Province Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150000, People’s Republic of China

    Zhuangzhi Sun, Shanqi Du, Fei Li, Lu Yang & Wenlong Song

  2. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science & Technology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150000, People’s Republic of China

    Zhuangzhi Sun & Wenlong Song

  3. College of International Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150000, People’s Republic of China

    Dan Zhang

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Sun, Z., Du, S., Li, F. et al. High-performance cellulose based nanocomposite soft actuators with porous high-conductivity electrode doped by graphene-coated carbon nanosheet. Cellulose 25, 5807–5819 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-018-2000-3

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