A heat-melt adhesive-assisted transferable electrode films

ABSTRACT This report is the first on heat-assisted transferable battery components, enabling manufacturing batteries on non-planer surfaces such as a curved surface and an edge. The

transferrable battery components were composed of two layers: a cathode or an anode and a conductive heal-melt adhesive layer on a silicone-based flexible supporting paper. These

mechanically-durable, flexible components enabled conformable adhesion even on curved surfaces and substrate edges. As a model battery, the manganese dioxide-zinc system was constructed on a

curved surface using transfer techniques and showed a practical capacity of 1.8 mAh cm−2 per unit electrode area. These transferable electrodes allow arbitrary design of batteries according

to the power consumption of IoT devices to be fabricated on unreported geometries where has been considered as a dead space. SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS HIGHLY STRETCHABLE

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MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY FOR WEARABLE ELECTRONICS Article Open access 08 May 2023 INTRODUCTION Integrating various kinds of sensors on the human body or products, and public facilities are

required to enable the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) society. Recently developed wearable sensors with flexible, bendable, and stretchable characteristics are designed to be conformable

to these objects with complex surface geometry. For example, wearable health sensing devices are worn on the human body in the form of wristband, band-air, or soft contact lens1,2,3,4,5. For

logistics tracking applications, the product tag with an environmental sensor has been developed to be placed on products6. The other compelling application is a wearable device for plants

to monitor their growth and surrounding environmental conditions7. Whatever the sensor's application, an energy storage device is required for these sensors' continuous operation.

Storage devices such as lithium-ion batteries and redox capacitors are suitable for repeated use, while primary batteries are expected to be installed in low-cost devices for disposable

use8,9,10. As described above, the ideal mechanical characteristics IoT devices with a power supply should be conformable to the shapes of objects while not interfering with their functions

and operations. For this reason, various kinds of flexible or bendable batteries packed in a laminate film have been developed11,12,13. These batteries can be attached to objects with

irregular surface structures while following their motion. However, the connection method remains an issue because the electronic circuit and the battery must be manufactured separately.

Another advanced technique is a direct printing of the battery pattern on a curved surface of objects using a dispenser printing5. Previous research has demonstrated a redox capacitor's

construction on a contact lens's curved surface by using a dispenser. This technique is useful for the additive manufacturing of an arbitrarily designed battery connecting to

electronic circuits. However, this technique is challenging to scale up because the nozzle diameter restricted the electrode's width, and it needs to be repeated dozens of times. We

focused on the transferring method, intending to construct electrodes large enough for the curved surface11,14. This method provides easy transfer of the patterns previously fabricated on

the other supporting substrate to the target objects on demand. With this method, the supporting substrate's transferrable patterns were attached to the target surface. However, the

previously reported methods used a rigid support substrate such as mica or silicon wafer; the composite could not be deformed to fit the target surface geometry. Furthermore, because the

transferring method was based on the object's adhesion, the transferable material was restricted to sticky materials such as poly(dimethylsiloxane). In this study, we developed the

transferrable battery components, including carbon collector, cathode, and anode that consisted of two layers: an electrode composite layer and a conductive adhesive layer on a flexible

supporting film (Fig. 1). A mechanically-durable, silicone-based flexible paper was used as a supporting film because an oxygen-plasma treatment could easily modify its surface wettability.

Furthermore, the surface roughened by plasma irradiation is expected to improve adhesion to the electrode composite by the anchor effect. The conductive adhesive layer was composed of

poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) (PEAA) as a heat-melt adhesive resin and a graphite powder as an electric conductor. The battery components can be transferred to the target surface by

applying heat from the supporting film's backside. Due to the low melting point of PEAA at 70 °C, the battery components and target surface with heat-sensitive electronic circuits will

receive less heat damage. A MnO2/Zn primary battery was constructed as a model to demonstrate the applicability of these transferable battery components and its battery characteristics.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Figure 1a illustrates the layered structure of transferable flexible battery components for the current collector and anode/cathode. They consisted of two composite

layers: an electrode composite (first layer) and a heat-melt adhesive and conductive composite (second layer). The first layer's composition was as follows: (Carbon collector composite)

carbon nanomaterials as conductors and polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) as a binder. (Cathode and anode composite) active materials (cathode: manganese dioxide, anode: zinc), multiwalled

carbon nanotube (MWCNT), polystyrene-polybutadiene block copolymer as a binder, and hydroxyethyl cellulose as a thickener. The second adhesive and conductive layer was composed of graphite

as a conductor and PEAA as a heat-melt adhesive resin. Slurries of the first and second layers were sequentially coated and dried on a silicone-based supporting paper. The supporting

paper's surface wettability was tuned by oxygen plasma treatment for the first layer to stick to the silicone sheet15,16. The silicone-based paper has high durability and flexibility to

be conformable to the target surface. Also, its thermal resistivity (under 250 °C) allows the heating process at 100 °C during the electrode composites' preparation on the supporting

paper17. These transferrable battery components were placed on the target surface so that the first layer contacted the target surface and heated over 70 °C to melt the second adhesive

layer. After heating, only the electrode composites were left on the target surface by peeling the supporting paper from the first layer (Fig. 1b). First, the cathode and anode slurries were

prepared by the previously reported optimized process9, and the carbon collector slurry was originally prepared. Cathode and anode slurries were prepared by mixing 5% MWCNT, 2.5%

polystyrene-polybutadiene block copolymer and 2.5% hydroxyethyl cellulose, with 90 wt% active materials (manganese dioxide powder for the cathode and zinc for the anode) in

_N_-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). In the carbon collector case, it has been reported that blending multiple carbon materials resulted in lower resistance than using single carbon material. For

example, Song et al. showed that low-resistance flexible conductive films could be made by mixing MWCNT with carbon black (CB)18. Our study found a carbon blend composed of the vapor-grown

carbon fiber (VGCF), and CB was evaluated. VGCF is one of the graphitized carbon fibers that could be homogeneously dispersed in the electrode composite layer to form a network structure,

decreasing the resistance and increasing the mechanical strength19,20. The relationship between the mixture ratio of VGCF/CB/PVDF in the slurry and the volume resistance was investigated to

minimize the resistance. VGCF/CB/PVDF powders (total amount of 0.2 g) were mixed with 1 g of NMP solvent, and the slurry was blade coated on a glass substrate and dried at 100 °C. The volume

resistance was calculated by multiplying the sheet resistance by the composite thickness. Figure 2a shows the volume resistance of the carbon collector prepared from the various slurry

compositions. The horizontal axis refers to the percentage of VGCF in carbon weight (VGCF/carbon ratio). For example, VGCF/carbon ratio = 0.6 and PVDF 50% means that 0.06 g VGCF and 0.04 g

CB and 0.1 g PVDF (50% against 0.2 g of total weight of the slurry) were mixed. For the same value of VGCF/carbon ratio, the volume resistance of carbon composites decreased with an increase

of the PVDF content ratio. This is because the increased PVDF binder strongly facilitated the bonding between VGCF and CB to reduce the contact resistance between them. Figure 2b–d shows

the SEM images of carbon composites when the VGCF/carbon ratio was 0, 0.6, and 1. Without CB (VGCF/carbon ratio = 1), the VGCF fibers formed a mesh-like structure (Fig. 2b). In contrast,

without VGCF (VGCF/carbon ratio = 0), the CB particles densely presented (Fig. 2d). When VGCF/carbon ratio was 0.6, VGCF fiber formed a mesh-like network connected via CB particles (Fig. 

2c). These results suggested an increased number of contact points between VGFC fibers via CB particles decreased the bulk volume resistance of the carbon collector composite. In the

following study, the carbon collector slurry composition was set to VGCF/carbon ratio = 0.6, PVDF content ratio = 50%. As a preliminary study of the silicone-based supporting paper's

surface modification, the effect of oxygen plasma treatment on the supporting paper's wettability against water was evaluated using the contact angle measurement. Figure 3a shows water

droplets' appearance on the pristine and oxygen plasma-treated (100 W for 5 s) silicone-based paper. The contact angle decreased after oxygen plasma treatment. Figure 3b plots the water

droplet's contact angle on the paper for the oxygen plasma irradiation time. The contact angle decreased in a time-dependent manner within 5 s of irradiation and approached a constant

value at more than 5 s. Then, adhesion of the first layers (carbon collector, cathode, and anode composites) to the oxygen plasma-treated silicone-based supporting papers was evaluated. Each

electrode composite was prepared on the oxygen plasma-treated paper by blade coating with 125 µm thick stencils and then drying (Fig. 3c). Then, adhesive Kapton tape was attached to the

electrode composite, followed by peeling the supporting paper's tape. Figure 3d–f show the peeled Kapton tape (orange-color tape pointed by the red arrow) with the electrode composite

from the supporting paper (white-color paper pointed by the blue arrow). All the electrode composites were successfully peeled from the oxygen plasma-treated supporting paper. Supplementary

Figure S1 shows photographs of the peeled Kapton tape from the supporting paper treated for different oxygen plasma irradiation time (1, 3, and 5 s). The collector electrode and cathode

composites were spontaneously detached from the paper treated for less than threshold irradiation time (3 s for the collector electrode, 1 s for the cathode, respectively) without Kapton

tape due to its weak adhesion to the paper (Supplementary Figure S2). Optimal adhesion of the carbon collector composite was achieved by treating the paper for 5 s, and it was successfully

transferred onto Kapton tape. The relatively brittle manganese dioxide layer was partially destroyed during transferring. The weight of the transferred manganese dioxide composite and the

remaining composite on the silicone sheet were measured and the residual ratio was calculated to be 5% for 3 s-treated paper. As the irradiation time increased to 5 s, the residual ratio

increased to 8%, so that the optimal irradiation time was determined to be 3 s. On the other hand, anode composite showed good adhesion even on the 1 s-treated paper, while its adhesion

against 5 s-treated paper was too strong to be peeled from the paper. Based on these results, the optimum oxygen plasma irradiation time against the silicone-based papers for the carbon

collector, cathode, and anode composites was determined to be 5, 3, and 1 s, respectively. Next, the second adhesive/conductive layer was formed on the first layer-prepared supporting paper.

The slurry consisting of graphite and PEAA was prepared into α-terpineol solvent, followed by blade-coating on the first layer. Finally, α-terpineol was removed by vacuum drying at 5 °C to

prevent the solvent from soaking into the first layer. Supplementary Figure S3 shows the PEAA-graphite layers' cross-sectional profiles and SEM images on the manganese dioxide cathode

(a,c) and zinc anode layers (b,d). The cathode and anode composites' thicknesses before and after the second layer coating were 81 to 89 µm and 49 to 57 µm, respectively, suggesting

that the second layer's thickness was about 8 µm. The SEM image of the PEAA-graphite layer on first layer (manganese dioxide and zinc layer) showed a clear interface between the two

layers. The blend of the two layers was prevented. Figure 4a shows the demonstration of the transfer of the battery components onto a curved surface. Two carbon collectors were adhered in

parallel onto the curved sidewall of a glass bottle and then heated using the iron. Then, the silicone-based supporting paper was peeled off from the composites. Figure 4b shows another

demonstration of battery components transferred to the steep edge of the polyethylene naphthalete (PEN) film (50 µm thick). Two pairs of silver wire patterns were formed from the front

surface to the PEN film's back surface, and the cathode/carbon collector was transferred onto one of the silver wires and the anode/carbon collector to the other. If the electrolyte

solution was sealed on the electrode surface, it could function as a battery. In general, the edge of the film was unsuitable for forming devices. Our technique enables the construction of a

battery even at such dead space to effectively use the objects' limited area. Finally, the primary battery was constructed by transferring carbon collector, cathode, and anode

composite onto a PEN film, a commonly used substrate for printed electronics. Figure 4c shows the transfer-based fabrication process of the primary battery. 5 mm width of carbon collector

composites were transferred on a pair of Ag tab electrode patterns previously prepared on the PEN film in parallel at 2 mm intervals. The cathode and anode tape cut into 5 mm squares were

transferred to the carbon collector's tip to prepare the anode and cathode electrode (1). A transparent laminate film was heat-fused to one side of the Ag tab (2). A paper separator was

placed between the laminate film and the anode and cathode electrodes, followed by applying 12 µL (14 mg) of electrolyte (NH4Cl 20 wt% + ZnCl2 20 wt%) into it (3). Finally, the three sides

of the laminate film were thermally fused to seal the electrolyte (4). Figure 4d shows the results of the discharge test of the fabricated primary battery. The plateau behavior was observed

around 1.3 and 0.9 V, respectively. The first plateau region at 1.3 V is due to the reaction in which MnO2 is reduced to MnO(OH). The second step is derived from the reduction of MnO(OH) to

form Mn2+ or Mn3O4. This behavior is observed in the case that MWCNT was used as conductive carbon9. Through this two-step reaction, the electrode tape exerted a capacity of 1.8 mAh cm−2.

CONCLUSIONS We developed heat-assisted transferable battery components to achieve the battery's arbitral design, which is compatible with IoT devices. We found that cost-effective

silicone-based paper was suitable as a supporting substrate for the transfer technique because its surface wettability could be tuned by an oxygen plasma treatment depending on the kinds of

electrode composites. A primary MnO2/Zn battery consisting of three types of transferable electrodes (carbon collector, cathode, and anode) demonstrated a capacity of 1.8 mAh cm−2. Since

this novel transferrable battery components can be designed to any shape, it is expected that the battery shape, which is calculated backward from the power consumption of the device, can be

produced readily. This technique will also make it possible to construct the battery on unreported geometries such as curved surfaces and edges. Besides, in contrast to printing techniques

that require a printing mask, these electrodes can be designed arbitrarily by cutting. This allows for arbitral battery design according to the power consumption of various IoT devices.

However, the present study remains a qualitative discussion about the transfer conditions. A quantitative discussion in light of silicone paper surface roughness and polarity should be

conducted in the near future. Furthermore, to further increase the battery density, it is preferable to stack electrodes and separator/electrolyte. To achieve the sandwich structure, the

development of sticky separator/electrolyte sheet and electrode that can be transferred to the electrolyte sheet is the next challenges. METHODS MATERIALS

Polystyrene-block-polybutadiene-block-polybutadiene (styrene 30%, Mw ~ 140,000), poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) (acrylic acid 20 wt%) and graphite powder were purchased from Sigma Aldrich.

Hydroxyethyl cellulose and multiwalled carbon nanotube (10–20 nm of diameter, 5–15 µm of length) were purchased from TCI. _N_-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone, α-terpineol and zinc powder were purchased

from Wako. Zinc chloride and ammonium chloride were purchased from Kanto. Manganese dioxide powder was purchased from Junsei. Volatile grown carbon fiber was purchased from Showa denko.

ARKEMA kindly provided poly ethylene difluoride (Kynar HSV1800). Super C65 was purchased from IMERYS Corp. Commercially available silicone sheet was purchased from the supermarket. Poly

ethylene naphthalate film (G65HA) was purchased from Dupont. All materials were employed without further purification. PREPARATION OF THE CARBON COLLECTOR/MNO2/ZN SLURRY AND PEAA-GRAPHITE

Carbon slurry was prepared by uniformly mixing VGCF, Super C65 and PVDF powder, followed by adding 1 g of NMP to be mixed together using an agate mortar. Cathode slurry was prepared by

mixing 0.05 g of MWCNT, 0.125 g of 20%-polystyrene-polybutadiene block copolymer/NMP solution, 0.5 g of 5%-hydroxyethyl cellulose/NMP, and 0.4 g of NMP, followed by adding 0.90 g of MnO2

powder to be mixed together using an agate mortar. Anode slurry was prepared by mixing 0.05 g of MWCNT was mixed along with 0.125 g of 20%-polystyrene-polybutadiene block copolymer/NMP

solution, 0.5 g of 5%-hydroxyethyl cellulose/NMP, and 0.1 g of NMP, followed by adding 0.90 g of Zn powder to be mixed together using an agate mortar. PEAA-graphite slurry was prepared by

mixing 2 g of 15 wt% PEAA resin in α-terpineol prepared at 65 °C with 0.3 g of graphite powder in a sample dish and heated at 50 °C. Then, the uneven slurry was stirred under cooling at 5 °C

to be mixed uniformly. MAKING CARBON COLLECTOR/CATHODE/ANODE TAPE The silicone-based paper was fixed on the glass substrate and irradiated the oxygen plasma of 100 W for arbitral time

(PC-300, Samco). The first layer slurry was blade-coated on the treated silicone paper using the stencil mask (125 µm in thickness), and dried at 100 °C for 1 h in the forced airflow oven

(WFO-520, EYELA). Then, the PEAA-graphite slurry was coated on the first layer using 100, 125, and 100 µm thick of stencil masks for carbon collector, cathode, and anode composite first

layers, respectively. The resulting papers were cooled down to 5 °C and dried under vacuum overnight. After that, the remaining solvent was removed by drying at 65 °C overnight. BATTERY

FABRICATION Two Ag tab patterns were prepared by applying Ag nanoparticle paste (DOTITE, Fujikura Kasei) on the PEN substrate through a dumbbell-shaped stencil masks (10 mm for gauge length,

3 mm in diameter, in parallel at 2 mm intervals) and baked at 150 °C for 30 min. Five (5) mm wide of the carbon tapes were placed on the surface of Ag tab patterns and transferred by

heating them at 75 °C; after that silicone sheets were removed from the carbon composites. PEAA/α-terpineol solution was applied to the printed Ag tabs and a dryer removed the solvent. The

cathode and anode tapes cut into 5 mm squares were applied to the carbon collector's tip and transferred by heating them at 75 °C. A transparent laminate film (LZ-A4100, IRIS OHYAMA)

was heat-fused to one side of the Ag tab side. A paper separator was placed between the laminate film and the electrodes, and 12 µL (14 mg) of electrolyte (NH4Cl 20 wt% + ZnCl2 20 wt%) was

injected into it. Finally, the three sides of the laminate film were thermal fusion to seal the electrolyte solution. CHARACTERIZATION The morphology of the carbon collector was observed

with a scanning electron microscope (JSM-7600FA, JEOL). The cross-sections of PEAA-graphite layer were observed with a tabletop microscope (TM4000, HITACHI). Sheet resistance was measured

with the residence measurement (sigma − 5 + -S.P., NPS). The thickness of the electrode was measured with the profiler (Dektak XT, ULVAC). The contact angle was measured with the contact

angle meter (Theta T200-Basic, Biolin Scientific). The discharging test was conducted with charge/discharge tester (EP-7100P, Electrofield). DATA AVAILABILITY All data generated or analyzed

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Yuki Maruyama, Kuniaki Nagamine & Shizuo Tokito * Research Center for Organic Electronics, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan Kuniaki Nagamine, Shigeyuki Iwasa & Shizuo Tokito *

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