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  • Materials Science
  • Energy Storage Technologies
  • Electronics Engineering

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  • Flexible energy-storage devices offer advantages like flexibility, shape diversity, and light weight.
  • These properties are crucial for applications in portable, flexible, and wearable electronic devices.
  • Significant research efforts are focused on meeting the demands of next-generation flexible energy storage.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent advancements in flexible energy-storage devices.
  • To cover innovations and challenges in flexible lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
  • To explore integrated energy-storage systems and propose future research directions.

Main Methods:

  • Comprehensive literature review of recent scientific publications.
  • Analysis of technological innovations and challenges in flexible energy storage.
  • Synthesis of progress in flexible lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, and micro-supercapacitors.

Main Results:

  • Detailed overview of progress in flexible lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
  • Discussion of recent achievements in flexible energy-storage systems.
  • Identification of key technological bottlenecks and areas for future research.

Conclusions:

  • Flexible energy-storage devices are rapidly evolving with significant progress in batteries and supercapacitors.
  • Further research is needed to overcome existing challenges and achieve ideal flexible energy-storage solutions.
  • The review provides insights into future research directions for advanced flexible energy storage.