Polysaccharide-modified conductive hydrogel for flexible electronic devices

Abstract In recent years, conductive hydrogels, as an ideal flexible material, have quite broad application prospects in various electronics fields, such supercapacitors, batteries, and sensors. However, mechanical stress stretching, fracture, compression will affect the performance of hydrogel during application, which limits its further application. Polysaccharides, cellulose chitosan, are widely distributed easy-to-obtain biological macromolecules, contain a large number polar functional groups (carboxyl, amino, etc.), can be formed with polymer molecular chains, thereby improving hydrogel. Herein, we prepared kind high toughness, conductivity, self-adhesion by introducing carboxymethyl chitosan maltose to induce dynamic Schiff base reaction It is conceived that this study proposed potential approach for progress hydrogels fields.