Flexible supercapacitors

Flexible supercapacitors show a great potential for applications in wearable, miniaturized, portable, large-scale transparent and flexible consumer electronics due to their significant, inherent advantages, such as being flexible, lightweight, low cost and environmentally friendly in comparison with the current energy storage devices. In this report, recent progress on flexible supercapacitors, flexible electrodes and electrolytes is reviewed. In addition, the future challenges and opportunities are discussed.

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► Recent progress on flexible supercapacitors and flexible electrodes is reviewed.
► Flexible electrodes are mainly based on carbon networks.
► Various preparation methods of flexible electrodes are summarized.