Self-Healing All-in-One Energy Storage for Flexible Self-Powering Ammonia Smartsensors

Self-healable and flexible all-in-one self-powering smartsensing devices have recently attracted great attention.Herein,a flexible all-in-one solid-state electronic system of polyvinyl alcohol(PVA)hydrogel-based supercapacitors for self-powering ammonia smartsensors has been fabricated.Self-healing supercapacitors are prepared by integrating polypyrrole(PPy)and boron crosslinked PVA/KCl hydrogel as a sandwich configuration,exhibiting large specific capacitance of 244.81 mF cm^(-2)at 0.47 mA cm^(-2),and good charging/discharging stability of 2000 cycles,while ammonia sensors are realized by a SnO_(2)/PPy-modified conductive PVA hydrogel film,demonstrating an excellent sensing behavior toward NH_(3) vapor under 50 ppb–500 ppm.As a result,selfhealing supercapacitors could well store energy and then self-power sensing unit for remotely real-time detection via a smartphone,acquiring high flexibility of energy-sensing system.With attractive biocompatibility and selfhealing performance toward various environment,this all-in-one flexible energy-smartsensor system would pave the way to novel fabrication process in realization of wearable self-healing smart devices.